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The theory of voluntary disclosure of information posits that market forces lead senders to disclose information through a process of unravelling. This prediction requires that receivers hold correct beliefs and, in equilibrium, make adverse inferences about non-disclosed information. Previous...
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I study experimental markets in which sellers interact with buyers who have biased beliefs about the characteristics of the product that is being sold. I examine whether such buyers can be exploited by sellers through the use of specifically designed pricing structures, as suggested by recent...
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We experimentally investigate the strategic interaction between a product expert and a consumer. The expert privately chooses a ranking methodology to rank two products with uncertain relative merits; the consumer decides whether to acquire the resulting ranking report to guide her product...
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Unfavorable news are often delivered under the disguise of vagueness. Our theory-driven laboratory experiment … precision are not obvious. However, our model and experiment show that information transmission and the welfare of naive …
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We analyze corporate tax avoidance in a theoretical model and in a stylized experimental Bertrand setting in which symmetric firms and consumers sell and buy a homogeneous product, when human participants make decisions as firms and consumers. We investigate how market power and information...
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such positive spin? We use a theoretical model and a laboratory experiment to study the strategic use of vagueness in a … interval that separates her from worse types but is upwardly vague. Senders in the experiment adopt this strategy and some …
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We run a market experiment where subjects take the role of firms and can choose not only their price but also whether …
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We run a market experiment where firms can choose not only their price but also whether to present comparable offers …
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In the variable supply auction considered here, the seller decides how many costumers with unit demand to serve after observing their bids. Bidders are uncertain about the seller's cost. We experimentally investigate whether a uniform or a discriminatory price auction is better for the seller in...
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-price (English) auctions with independent private values. In a laboratory experiment, we find that individuals overbid more than …
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