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Does tendering conservation contracts with performance payments generate additional benefits?

Schilizzi, Steven; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

Policy makers aiming to get private landholders to supply non-marketed environmental services may need to provide efficient economic incentives. Two ideas have been explored to achieve this: linking contract payments to environmental outcomes and submitting the contracts to competitive tender....

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Coordinating cross-border congestion management through auctions: An experimental approach to European solutions

Jullien, Céline; Pignon, Virginie; Robin, Stéphane; … - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 1-13

Competition among producers within an integrated electricity system is impeded by any limited transmission capacity there may be at its borders. Two alternative market mechanisms have recently been designed to organize the allocation of scarce transmission capacity at cross-border level: (i) the...

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Using Experimental Auctions for Marketing Applications: A Discussion

Lusk, Jayson L. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 35 (2003) 02

The present article discusses general issues associated with experimental auctions and their relative advantages and … disadvantages over other marketing research techniques. Experimental auctions create an active market environment with feedback … discusses four experimental design issues associated with experimental auctions: auction mechanism, market feedback and bidder …

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Vernon Smith's Insomnia and the Dawn of Economics as Experimental Science

Bergstrom, Theodore C. - EconWPA - 2002

This is a commentary on Vernon Smith's contributions to experimental economics

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Coordinating cross-border congestion management through auctions: An experimental approach to European solutions

Jullien, Céline; Pignon, Virginie; Robin, Stéphane; … - HAL - 2012

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Discrete Clock Auctions: An Experimental Study

Cramton, Peter; Filiz-Ozbay, Emel; Ozbay, Erkut; … - University of Maryland, Department of Economics - Peter … - 2010

We analyze the implications of different pricing rules in discrete clock auctions. The two most common pricing rules … market; under LAB, the winners pay the highest price that clears the market. Both the HRB and LAB auctions maximize revenues …

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Coalition-based pricing in ascending combinatorial auctions

Bichler, Martin; Hao, Zhen; Adomavicius, Gediminas - In: Information systems research : ISR 28 (2017) 1, pp. 159-179

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Reputational concerns in repeated rent-seeking contests

Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke - 2016

We experimentally investigate how reputational concerns affect behavior in repeated Tullock contests by comparing expenditures of participants interacting in fixed groups with the expenditures of participants interacting with randomly changing opponents. When participants receive full...

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Cycles of conditional cooperation in a real-time voluntary contribution mechanism

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Zultan, Ro'i - 2009

This paper provides a new way to identify conditional cooperation in a real-time version of the standard voluntary contribution mechanism. Our approach avoids most drawbacks of the traditional procedures because it relies on endogenous cycle lengths, which are defined by the number of...

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Consumption feedback and water saving: An experiment in the metropolitan area of Milan

Clò, Stefano; Reggiani, Tommaso; Ruberto, Sabrina - 2023

This paper questions whether informative feedback on consumption can nudge water saving behavioral change. For this purpose, we launched a five-month online information campaign which involved equipping around 1,000 households located in the province of Milan (Italy) with a smart meter. Treated...

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