Search Results - subject:"experiments."

Falk, Armin; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

experiments offer the possibility to obtain clean evidence. In this paper we measure the output of four randomly selected groups …

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Elicitation Format and Sensitivity to Scope

Foster, Vivien; Mourato, Susana - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 24 (2003) 2, pp. 141-160

This paper undertakes a systematiccomparison of the contingent valuation (CV) andchoice experiments (CE) methods …

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Emphatic Responsiveness: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on Giving to Welfare Recipients

Fong, Christina M. - The Field Experiments Website - 2003

This paper reports a surprising finding from an experiment on giving to welfare recipients. The experiment tests how offers of money in n-donor dictator games are affected by 1) donors? humanitarian and egalitarian values and 2) direct information about the recipients?work-preferences. People...

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It's All About Connections: Evidence on Network Formation

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The game-theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...

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Tax Liability Side Equivalence in Gift-Exchange Labor Markets

Tyran, Jean-Robert; Riedl, Arno - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2003

Tax Liability Side Equivalence (tax LSE) claims that the statutory incidence of a tax is irrelevant for its economic incidence. In gift-exchange labor markets, firms provide a gift to workers by paying high wages, and workers reciprocate by providing high efforts. Tax LSE is theoretically...

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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

-suited to conduct equilibrium policy experiments and we illustrate effectiveness of general equilibrium models as tools for the … evaluation of social programs. Second, we demonstrate the usefulness of social experiments as tools to evaluate models. In this … respect, our paper serves as the equilibrium analogue to LaLonde (1986) and others, where experiments are used as a benchmark …

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The Use of Simulations in Developing Robust Knowledge about Causal Processes: Methodological Considerations and an Application to Industrial Evolution

Murmann, Johann Peter; Brenner, Thomas - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2003

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Multiple Prisoner's Dilemma Games with(out) an Outside Option: an Experimental Study

Hauk, Esther - In: Theory and Decision 54 (2003) 3, pp. 207-229

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Capacity Choices and Price Competition in Experimental Markets

Anderhub, Vital; Güth, Werner; Kamecke, Ulrich; … - In: Experimental Economics 6 (2003) 1, pp. 27-52

. The experiments starts with two sets of exogenously predetermined capacities. Independently of the distribution of …

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Does Team-Based Compensation Give Rise to Problems When Agents Vary in Their Ability?

Meidinger, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - In: Experimental Economics 6 (2003) 3, pp. 253-272

This paper reports the results of an experiment on how team heterogeneity in terms of productivity influences both the revenue sharing proposed by the principal to the team and the employees' performance. Experimental evidence shows that when the team is heterogeneous, the principal does not try...

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