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An experiment on the winter demand commitment bargaining mechanism

Chessa, Michela; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Lardon, Aymeric; … - 2021

In this paper we experimentally compare three implementations of Winter demand commitment bargaining mechanism: a one-period implementation, a twoperiod implementation with low and with high delay costs. Despite the different theoretical predictions, our results show that the three different...

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Individual and collective information acquisition : an experimental study

Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2021

decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions …

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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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Formalized employee search and labor demand

Hensel, Lukas; Tekleselassie, Tsegay Gebrekidan; Witte, Marc - 2021

Firms often use social networks to find workers, limiting the pool of potential applicants. We conduct a field experiment subsidizing firms' formal vacancy posting. The subsidies increase non-network employee search and shift vacancies towards high-skilled positions. Post-treatment, firms...

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On weights and quotas for weighted majority voting games

Molinero, Xavier; Serna, Maria; Taberner-Ortiz, Marc - In: Games 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1-25

In this paper, we analyze the frequency distributions of weights and quotas in weighted majority voting games (WMVG) up to eight players. We also show different procedures that allow us to obtain some minimum or minimum sum representations of WMVG, for any desired number of players, starting...

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What to target? : insights from a lab experiment

Salle, Isabelle L. - 2021

This paper compares alternative monetary policy regimes within a controlled lab environment, where groups of participants are tasked with repeatedly forecasting inflation in a simple macroeconomic model featuring only the dynamics of interest rates, inflation and inflation expectations....

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Can mass fundraising harm your core business? : a field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2021 - revised

Some companies engage in mass fundraising in addition to their core business. Via a corporate social responsibility (CSR) channel this may increase sales. However, ask avoidance, if present, could imply that fundraising activities may harm a company's core business. We examine how asking for...

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Creative drive and algorithm aversion : the impact of influence in the process of algorithmic decision-making on algorithm aversion

Gubaydullina, Zulia; Judek, Jan René; Lorenz, Marco; … - 2021

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Happiness in the lab : what can be learned about subjective well-being from experiments?

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Goff, Sandra H. - 2021

stylized facts into question. This chapter explores the important contributions that happiness-in-the-lab experiments can make … distinction is made between happiness-in-the-lab experiments in which SWB is a dependent versus independent variable, and methods … for both types of experiments are discussed, along with a discussion of the limitations inherent in such experiments. The …

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Costly voting in weighted committees : the case of moral costs

Maaser, Nicola; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021

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