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In a hold-up experiment designed to test theoretical predictions following from Hart (1995) and deMeza/Lockwood (1998 … deviations from standard theory can be explained by positive reciprocal behavior. In this paper, we replicate the experiment by … experiment shows that the results by SOS crucially depend on the ownership structure being exogenously assigned by the …
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This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were...
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In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We find support for the hypothesis that...
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Telephone waiting times for a commercial service were varied in two different experiments. In the first experiment, the … evaluations was increased by the monetary costs of waiting. In the second experiment, the waiting times were filled in different …
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We use an experiment to compare two institutions for allocating the proceeds of team production. Under revenue …
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We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two …
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We conduct a prisoner’s dilemma experiment with a punishment/reward stage, where punishments and rewards are risky …
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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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one-shot price competition models that test the hassle cost argument by varying proportions of positive and zero hassle …
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to defeat the incumbent. Second, we analyze the impact that a subject’s “mental model” (which we infer from a pre-experiment …
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