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Crowding Out Trust: The Adverse Effects of Verification. An Experiment

Guerra, Gerardo A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

Through an experiment this study investigates the effects that verification has on honest traders. This paper demonstrates that by reducing the scope for trust verification can have a negative effect on the behaviour of honest individuals. Specifically, the analysis shows that trustworthy agents...

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Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation

Martinsson, Peter - Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia … - 2002

This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to valuation of non …-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent valuation method, are very important tools for … economic model of choice experiments is incorporated, as well as a presentation of econometric models consistent with economic …

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Exclusionary Manipulation of Carbon Permit Markets: A Laboratory Test

Carlén, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

The experiment reported here tests the case of so-called exclusionary manipulation of emission permit markets, i.e., when a dominant firm here a monopolist increases its holding of permits in order to raise its rivals’ costs and thereby gain more on a product market. Earlier studies have...

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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income

Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

, pages 402-422.<P> A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral …

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Ambiguity and gender differences in financial decision making : an experimental examination of competence and confidence effects

Gysler, Matthias; Brown-Kruse, Jamie Lynette; Schubert, … - 2002

This paper reports the results of an experiment that brings together psychological measures of competence and overconfidence with laboratory economic measures of individual valuations of uncertainty. We examine the valuations of risky and ambiguous lotteries in a financial decision context. The...

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Stability of the Cournot process : experimental evidence

Huck, Steffen; Normann, Hans-Theo; Oechssler, Joerg - 2002

We report results of experiments designed to test the predictions of the best reply process. In a Cournot oligopoly …

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Tax evasion and the source of income

Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - 2002

A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral patterns related …

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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change

Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002

This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions....

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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change

Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002

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Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration : the role of policy endogeneity

Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions...

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