The aim of this paper is to study the empirical phenomenon of rating bubbles, i.e. clustering on extremely positive … values in e-commerce platforms and rating web sites. By means of a field experiment that exogenously manipulates prior …

We conduct a field experiment to explore why firms pay dividends. We change managers’ perception on agency concerns … contacting publicly listed firms in China to test four dividend theories (agency, bird-in-hand, signaling, and tax clientele … changes in their dividend policy. The treatment effect of agency concerns in past payers is more prominent for firms with …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …

We evaluate the impact of technology adoption subsidies on in- vestment behavior in an individual choice experiment. In …

Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of …

this core question of collective action in a nation-wide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European …

this core question of collective action in a nation-wide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European …

Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of …

artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous …