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HYPOTHETICAL BIAS AND AN EXPLICIT CONTRACT
Tabatabaei, Maryam - 2010
, we test whether hypothetical bias is decreased by asking participants to sign an oath of honesty. An experimental …. One treatment received an oath while the other did not. Two different univariate and multivariate tests for the effect of … the oath on hypothetical bias were conducted. In both cases, the oath reduced hypothetical bias. We concluded that an oath …
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Consumer decision making in telecommunications
Harrison, Paul - 2011
mobile phone service. It also includes a quantitative experiment with 517 participants to examine, under close to real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483985
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Interpersonal Trust Formation During the Supplier Selection Process: The Role of Communication Channel
Huang, Xiaowen; Gattiker, Thomas F.; Schwarz, Joshua L. - 2008
behavioral experiment (N=117) comparing three communication media (face-to-face, email, and Internet reverse auctions) and two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431843
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The dynamics of closeness and betweenness
Buechel, Berno; Buskens, Vincent - 2008
Although both betweenness and closeness centrality are claimed to be important for the effectiveness of someone's network position, it has not been explicitly studied which networks emerge if actors follow incentives for these two positional advantages. We propose such a model and observe that...
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Evaluating Tradable Property Rights for Natural Resources: The Role of Strategic Entry and Exit
Brandt, Sylvia - 2003
This paper presents an econometric approach to the evaluation of environmental regulation using tradable property rights. Existing empirical research on this issue, which compares overall industry efficiency before and after the introduction of new regulations, conflates two distinct phenomena:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467776
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Enterprise Investment During the Transition: Evidence from Czech Panel Data
Lizal, Lubomir; Svejnar, Jan - 1997
We analyze investment behavior of the population of medium and large industrial firms located in the Czech Republic in 1992-95. We examine the relevance of alternative models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477230
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The Political Economy of Property Rights Discrimination.
Flores, Thomas Edward - 2008
A seemingly unassailable consensus in political economy states that secure and private property rights are the institutional guarantor of economic growth. In this dissertation, I dispute this conventional account and propose a new understanding of property rights institutions, their effect on...
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Direct Foreign Investments And Productivity Growth In Hungarian Firms, 1992-1999
Sgard, Jérôme - 2001
The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP growth. However, this benefit is significant only...
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Privatization and State Capacity in Postcommunist Society
King, Lawrence Peter; Hamm, Patrick - 2005
effectiveness, and thus produced poor economic performance. The present paper advances a version of this statist theory based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477529
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Institutions matter: the case of Vietnam
Tran, Bich Thi; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - 2008
The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...
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