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“The Best Price You'll Ever Get”: The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry

Busse, Meghan R.; Simester, Duncan I.; Zettelmeyer, Florian - In: Marketing Science 29 (2010) 2, pp. 268-290

During the summer of 2005, the three domestic U.S. automobile manufacturers offered a customer promotion that allowed customers to buy new cars using discount programs formerly offered only to employees. The initial months of the promotion were record sales months for each of the three firms,...

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Search and Choice in Online Consumer Auctions

Haruvy, Ernan; Leszczyc, Peter T. L. Popkowski - In: Marketing Science 29 (2010) 6, pp. 1152-1164

Price dispersion in simultaneous online auctions is a puzzle in light of the relatively low search costs required to find the lower price. Much of this price dispersion appears to be due to a lack of switching by bidders between auctions, which in turn could be due to inertia related to search...

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What Format for Multi-Unit Multiple-Bid Auctions?

Hailu, Atakelty; Thoyer, Sophie - In: Computational Economics 35 (2010) 3, pp. 189-209

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Women's Work after War

Kleykamp, Meredith A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

In the more than 30 years following the all-volunteer force (AVF), the proportion of women serving in the military has increased from 1.8 percent just before the AVF to 14.2 percent in 2008. The majority of women do not stay in the military for a 20-year or longer career; like men, most women...

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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self …-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who …

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Other-regarding behaviour: Testing guilt- and reciprocity-based models

Regner, Tobias; Harth, Nicole S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyse two types of belief-dependant models of social preferences: guilt aversion and reciprocity. In particular, we test the relevance of their input variables (second-order beliefs and general dispositions for guilt/reciprocity). The data confirm the predictions of belief-dependant models....

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The Minority of Three-Game: An Experimental and Theoretical Analysis

Chmura, Thorsten; Güth, Werner; Pitz, Thomas; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We report experimental and theoretical results on the minority of three-game where three players have to choose one of two alternatives independently and the most rewarding alternative is the one chosen by a single player. This coordination game has many asymmetric equilibria in pure strategies...

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Nonbinding recommendations: the relative effects of focal points versus uncertainty reduction on bargaining outcomes

Dickinson, David; Hunnicutt, Lynn - In: Theory and Decision 69 (2010) 4, pp. 615-634

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Chaudhuri, Ananish; Paichayontvijit, Tirnud - In: Experimental Economics 13 (2010) 3, pp. 346-363

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Bornhorst, Fabian; Ichino, Andrea; Kirchkamp, Oliver; … - In: Experimental Economics 13 (2010) 3, pp. 260-283

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