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Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006

environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for …

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A Meta-Analysis of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Valuation

Murphy, James J.; Allen, Geoffrey; Stevens, Thomas H.; … - 2003

Individuals are widely believed to overstate their economic valuation of a good by a factor of two or three. This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis of hypothetical bias in 28 stated preference valuation studies that report monetary willingness-to-pay and that used the same mechanism...

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Hybrid Auctions II: Experimental Evidence

Dutra, Joisa C; Menezes, Flavio - 2001

In this paper we report the results of an experiment designed to examine the properties of a hybrid auction - a Dutch-Vickrey auction, that combines a sealed bid first-price auction with a sealed bid second-price auction. This auction mechanism shares some important features with that used in...

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Buyer Liability and Voluntary Inspections in International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: A Laboratory Study

Cason, Timothy N. - 2000

This paper reports a preliminary laboratory experiment in which traders make investments to increase the reliability of tradable instruments that represent greenhouse gas emissions allowances. In one half of the sessions these investments are unobservable, while in the other half traders can...

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Market Power in Tradable Emission Markets: A Laboratory Testbed for Emission Trading in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria

Cason, Timothy N.; Gangadharan, Lata; Duke, Charlotte - 2003

In theory, competitive emission permit markets minimise total abatement cost for any emissionceiling. Permit markets are often imperfectly competitive, however, if they are thin anddominated by large firms. The dominant firm(s) could exercise market power and increase otherfirms’ costs of...

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From Fragmentation towards Innovation, the Application of Institutionalism towards Financial Market Theories

von Bernstorff, Alexandra - 2004

Financial markets in less developed countries suffer from financial dualism, a situation in which a large informal sector coexists alongside a formal one. Contemporary financial market theories are not able to incorporate an understanding of the informal sector and are, therefore, only...

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Experimental Evidence about Earning, Saving, and Borrowing Money in Rural Malawi.

Goldberg, Jessica A. - 2011

In the first chapter of this dissertation, I estimate the wage elasticity of working in the day labor market in rural Malawi using panel data from a unique field experiment. Though employment in daily wage markets is important to individuals and governments in developing countries, there is...

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Strategy, profits & ethics: Beyond the work of miles

Galbreath, Jeremy - 2006

study clearly demonstrates that ethics cannot be ignored in the classroom. For corporate strategists, examining their …

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Rebuilding the Iron Cage: Post-Failure Organizing in Newspapers and Investment Banks

Burg, Ryan S - 2011

dilemma, asking what insight business ethics research can provide for those who might wonder about the purpose of their firms … organizational theories of evolution, to the study of career trajectories, and to a life-cycle approach to business ethics. …

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International strategies and ethics: Exploring the tensions between head office and subsidiaries

Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2007

in managing ethics. Design/methodology/approach – Three levels of ethics are identified and discussed in the paper in the … context of three international strategies. Findings – The study finds that an organisation’s approach to ethics depends on its … level of ethics and the type of international strategy adopted. These two dimensions have the potential to create …

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