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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental studie of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay Auctions
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2020
in a laboratory experiment. Our data confirm that placing bid-caps and using favorable tie-breaking rules significantly …
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Biases in beliefs : experimental evidence
Bauer, Dominik; Wolff, Irenaeus - 2019 - This version: 20th February, 2019
Many papers have reported behavioral biases in belief formation that come on top of standard game-theoretic reasoning. We show that the processes involved depend on the way participants reason about their beliefs. When they think about what everybody else or another "unspeci fied" individual is...
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The demand for punishment to promote cooperation among like-minded people
Bühren, Christoph; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2021
We use an experiment to test the hypothesis that groups consisting of like-minded cooperators are able to cooperate …
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How do sellers benefit from Buy-It-Now prices in eBay auctions?
Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2019
We investigate experimentally on eBay how sellers set prices in "Buy-It-Now" (BIN) auctions. We find that the eBay format leads to prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Moreover, our results reveal that the information available on eBay about buyer experience and...
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Biases in belief reports
Bauer, Dominik; Wolff, Irenaeus - 2021 - This version: 11th January, 2021
Belief elicitation is important in many different felds of economic research. We show that how a researcher elicits such beliefs-in particular, whether the belief is about the participant's opponent, an unrelated other, or the population of others-affects the processes involved in the formation...
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Motivation and incentives in an online labor market
Fest, Sebastian; Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; … - 2020
Turk investigating the effects of monetary and non-monetary motivational instruments. In the first experiment, we study the … effects of performance pay and simple upfront messages (praise or reference points) on performance. The second experiment …. Sending simple messages, however, can have a significantly negative effect on output. The results from the second experiment …
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Ignorance, intention and stochastic outcomes
Friedrichsen, Jana; Momsen, Katharina; Piasenti, Stefano - 2021
room for the second mover when deciding on a reciprocating action. We employ a controlled experiment to investigate how …
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The perks of being in the smaller team : incentives in overlapping contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019 - This version: January 6, 2019
provision. We test our model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important … consequences for the provision of incentives in organizations and the design of sports competitions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236504
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The perks of being in the smaller team : incentives in overlapping contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2021
effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important … consequences for the provision of incentives in organizations and the design of sports competitions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341970
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What is a good reputation? : career concerns with heterogeneous audiences
Bar-Isaac, Heski; Deb, Joyee - In: International journal of industrial organization 34 (2014), pp. 44-50
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