Search Results - subject:"EXPERIMENTATION"

Public versus Private Provision of Daycare: An Experimental Evaluation

Viitanen, Tarja K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care within the Nordic system of universal provision of public care. The private daycare voucher acted as a significant boost for new daycare entrepreneurs to enter the market thus increasing the overall daycare...

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The need for Pragmatic Experimentation in Educational Research

Torgerson, Carole J.; Torgerson, David J. - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 16 (2007) 5, pp. 323-330

The randomised controlled trial (RCT) is the best method for evaluating changes in educational practice. Nevertheless, it has been criticised because its results often have poor ecological validity. This valid criticism can be addressed by designing the RCT so that it mimics normal teaching...

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Feasibility of using student subjects in accounting experiments: a review

Liyanarachchi, Gregory A. - In: Pacific Accounting Review 19 (2007) 1, pp. 47-67

Purpose – The unavailability of practitioners is one of the disturbing realities that often prevent the use of experimental methods in accounting research. The availability of pragmatic alternatives to accounting practitioners demands that researchers explore such alternatives fully before...

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China's economic transformation in the evolutionary perspective: uncertainty, learning and experimentation

Yu, Fu-Lai Tony - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 1 (2007) 1, pp. 5-20

This paper applies the Austrian perspective of human agency to model a 'learning government'. It portrays the government as an actor who makes decision under uncertainty. Public agents, like private enterprises, formulate expectations and plans based on their experiences. Assimilating new...

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Agency costs in the process of development

Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1997

We analyze an economy where production is subject to moral hazard. The degree of the incentive (agency) costs introduced by the presence of moral hazard naturally depends on the information structure in the economy; it is cheaper to induce correct incentives in a society which posesses better ex...

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Market Experimentation and Pricing

Bergemann, Dirk; Valimaki, Juuso - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 1996

offered is unknown to the market. The market participants learn more about the true value of the product as experimentation … occurs over time. Firms set prices to induce experimentation with their product. The aggregate outcomes are public … externality leads to too much learning. Buyers do not consider the impact of their experimentation on other buyers while the …

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Cognition, Incentives, and Public Governance

Garzarelli, Giampaolo - In: Public Finance Review 34 (2006) 3, pp. 235-257

The second-generation theory (SGT) of fiscal federalism, which draws upon contemporary economic and industrial organization theory, hitherto focuses only on the negative benefits of public decentralization: the potentially superior ability to align perverse incentives vis-à-vis the centralized...

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Valeur et sincérité perçues d'une promotion multi-mécanismes

Desmet, Pierre; Mimouni, Aîda; Parguel, Béatrice; de … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

-subjects experimentation on 210 adult consumers is conducted, with a varying number of promotional mechanisms for a constant monetary saving …

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The effect of strategic and tactical cause‐related marketing on consumers' brand loyalty

van den Brink, Douwe; Odekerken‐Schröder, Gaby; … - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 23 (2006) 1, pp. 15-25

Purpose – The first objective was to find out to what extent consumers reveal an effect of strategic and tactical cause‐related marketing on brand loyalty. Second, the article seeks to assess the moderating role of consumer involvement with a product on the relationship between...

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Valeur et sincérité perçues d'une promotion multi-mécanismes.

Desmet, Pierre; Mimouni, Aîda; Parguel, Béatrice; De … - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2006

expérimentation inter-sujets portant sur 210 adultes et proposant un nombre variable de mécanismes monétaires pour une valeur …-subjects experimentation on 210 adult consumers is conducted, with a varying number of promotional mechanisms for a constant monetary saving …

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