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Decoupling synthetic control methods to ensure stability, accuracy and meaningfulness

Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà; Mazaira-Font, Ferran A. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 549-584

The synthetic control method (SCM) is widely used to evaluate causal effects under quasi-experimental designs. However, SCM suffers from weaknesses that compromise its accuracy, stability and meaningfulness, due to the nested optimization problem of covariate relevance and counterfactual...

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Obviousness around the clock

Breitmoser, Yves; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian - In: Experimental Economics 25 (2021) 2, pp. 483-513

Li (Am Econ Rev 107(11):3257–3287, 2017) introduces a theoretical notion of obviousness of a dominant strategy, to be used as a refinement in mechanism design. This notion is supported by experimental evidence that bidding is closer to dominance in the dynamic ascending-clock auction than the...

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The flip side of power

Bolle, Friedel; Otto, Philipp E. - In: Public Choice 190 (2021) 1-2, pp. 75-92

, veto players are disadvantaged while tie-breaking players can be advantaged. In experiments with otherwise symmetric …

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How has COVID-19 affected the intention to migrate via the backway to Europe and to a neighboring African country? Survey evidence and a salience experiment in The Gambia

Bah, Tijan L.; Batista, Catia; Gubert, Flore; McKenzie, … - 2021

increased and their remittance income has fallen. We also introduce the methodology of priming experiments to the study of …

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Other-regarding preferences and pro-environmental behaviour: An interdisciplinary review of experimental studies

Heinz, Nicolai; Koessler, Ann-Kathrin - 2021

encouraged by addressing these other-regarding preferences. In this paper, we review the results from social science experiments …

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Institutional conditions for the up-take of governance experiments - A comparative case study

Feser, Daniel; Winkler-Portmann, Simon; Bischoff, Thore … - 2021

Experiments are an important governance instrument to support niche development, promote niche-regime interaction … of experiments are under-explored in the transition experimentation literature. Thus, this paper examines the following … research question: How is the up-take of regulatory experiments for sustainability transitions influenced by their design …

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No Man is an Island - Trust, Trustworthiness, and Social Capital among Syrian Refugees in Germany

El-Bialy, Nora; Fraile Aranda, Elisa; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - 2021

We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the refugees' involvement in two different forms of social networking (forming bonding ties with other refugees vs. forming bridging ties between refugees and Germans). We implement...

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Separating the effects of beliefs and attitudes on pricing under ambiguity

Li, Wenhui; Wilde, Christian - 2021

experiments how much effect each factor can induce. We apply both non-parametric and parametric methods to cleanly separate the …

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Paying to Match: Decentralized Markets with Information Frictions

Agranov, Marina; Dianat, Ahrash; Samuelson, Larry; … - 2021

We experimentally study decentralized one-to-one matching markets with transfers. We vary the information available to participants, complete or incomplete, and the surplus structure, supermodular or submodular. Several insights emerge. First, while markets often culminate in eﬃcient...

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Communication and Social Preferences: An Experimental Analysis

Gabrales, Antonio; Feri, Francesco; Gottardi, Piero; … - 2021

This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are …

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