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consumer electronics, and club memberships. We demonstrate that consumption is affected by contract structure (pay-peruse vs …. We also measure subjects’ willingness to pay for a contract with free access units, and we find that nearly half of … strategy is therefore to offer a contract that presells access units at a very small discount; this strategy increases revenue …
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The paper presents an experiment testing the hypothesis that, if consumers do not have well defined preferences and as a result their valuation of a new product is shaped by past experiences of prices, it may be more profitable for firms to follow the opposite strategy of pricing high and then...
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Public good contribution in experiments may at least partially be driven by the social demand to contribute that is implicit in them. We consider a questionnaire measure and build a behavioral measure of sensitivity to social pressure based on paired dictator and money burning games; we find...
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Public good contribution in experiments may at least partially be driven by the social demand to contribute that is implicit in them. We consider a questionnaire measure and build a behavioural measure of sensitivity to social pressure based on paired dictator and money burning games; we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571482
Exponential-growth bias (EGB) is the tendency for individuals to partially neglect compounding of exponential growth … substantial bias, with approximately one-third of subjects estimated as the fully-biased type. The magnitude of the bias is …
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We explore whether behavioral biases impede the effective processing and interpretation of soft information in private lending. Taking advantage of the internal reporting system of a large federal credit union, we delineate three important biases likely to affect the lending process: (1) limited...
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The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to … researchers especially in health economics emphasizing the policy importance of the phenomenon. Although the bias has been … replicated several times, some doubts remain about its economic significance. Our two experiments show that the bias disappears …
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finance, it is usually modeled as a direct consequence of misperceiving signal reliability. This bias is typically dubbed … on the well-established "miscalibration" bias. We find no gender differences in overconfidence for our measures except … bias …
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than they reward those of positive ones. In this paper we extend this explanation of the praise-blame bias by arguing that … ; externalities ; punishment ; praise ; moral bias …
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