Showing 1 - 10 of 87,396
In this paper, we apply economic behavior analysis to the issue of grades and student ratings of teaching, and develop econometric models (both OLS and 2SLS methods) to test the hypothesis that students rate their professors primarily based upon their midterm grades. Our findings reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014211888
form of a plate of M&Ms. Communication is not allowed in the first experiment, whereas in the second experiment students … may try to influence each other's desired harvest. The third experiment divides the plate to establish individual property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069972
With the use of a laboratory experiment, we show the effects of co-investments on coverage, competition and price …-investments, seems to have a positive effect on investments. However, the surprising message of the experiment is that tacit collusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009574072
We experimentally study the effect of information about competitors ́actions on cartel stability and firms ́incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532614
We systematically investigate the relationship between the number of firms in a market and tacit collusion by means of a meta-analysis of the literature on oligopoly experiments as well as two of our own experiments with a total of 368 participants. We show that the degree of tacit collusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937619
. With the use of a laboratory experiment, we investigate the impact of co-investments on competition in regulated network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008025
We experimentally study the effect of information about competitors' actions on cartel stability and firms' incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022876
This paper presents an experiment to test effects of sequential entry on stability of collusion in oligopoly markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012713807
) model where firms are heterogeneous in terms of production capacities and individual cartel decisions are endogenized. The …, which firms are part of it. The second aim of the experiment is to study the coordinated effects of a merger when partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761059
communication. Using a repeated, asymmetric capacity constraint price game, we show that, in line with theory, a partial cartel is … sufficient to increase market prices for all firms. Moreover, we find that prices of cartel insiders and outsiders are not … necessarily on the same level what contradicts common theoretical predictions. This is because communication allows cartel members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897162