We describe a first experiment on whether product complexity affects competition and consumers in retail markets. We …

We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition … Prowse experiment, where the latter treatment removes the scope for social comparisons. If disappointment aversion simply …

Prowse experiment are compared, where the latter treatment involves a competition against Nature and removes the scope for …

"real effort" lab experiment with 550 subjects in 11 treatments and one baseline. Finally, we tested two interventions in a … small field experiment with 36 test-households. Our results indicate that monetary incentives to save energy foster the … monetary incentives - and providing social comparison induced substantial effort in our lab experiment. Extending the social …

We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition … Prowse experiment, where the latter treatment removes the scope for social comparisons. If disappointment aversion simply …

We conducted a laboratory experiment to study the price setting behavior in two-sided markets. We seek to answer two …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … ability ; experiment …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether … ; incentives ; sorting ; selection ; experiment …

inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the … determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … higher efficiency as long as liability is violated. -- credence goods ; experiment ; liability ; verifiability ; reputation …

-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …