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Human capital, signaling, and employer learning : what insights do we gain from regression discontinuity designs?

Graetz, Georg - 2017

studying (the pure human capital model) or whether studying has no effect on productivity (the pure signaling model). Thus … help to distinguish between human capital and signaling. However, with longitudinal data, RDD can be used to estimate the …

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Voting as a signaling device

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2012

electoral incentives may generate large changes in turnout due to signaling effects. (iv) Signaling incentives increase the … volatile turnout than larger communities. -- electoral incentives ; signaling ; voting …

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I care what you think : social image concerns and the strategic revelation of past pro-social behavior

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2019

This article studies whether people want to control which information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to other people. Participants in an experiment are assigned a color which depends on their own past pro-sociality. They can then spend money to increase or decrease the...

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What you see is all there is

Enke, Benjamin - 2020

News reports and communication are inherently constrained by space, time, and attention. As a result, news sources often condition the decision of whether to share a piece of information on the similarity between the signal and the prior belief of the audience, which generates a sample selection...

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Voting as a signaling device

Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - 2012

effects and small changes in the electoral incentives may generate large changes in turnout due to signaling effects. (iv …) Signaling incentives increase the sensitivity of turnout to voting incentives in communities with low opportunity cost of social … smaller communities have more volatile turnout than larger communities. -- electoral incentives ; signaling ; voting …

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Unveiling shades of green food beyond labels : evidence from an online experiment to climate adaptation

Castaldo, Cecilia; Giaccherini, Matilde; Pallante, Giacomo - 2024

We investigate the role of information strategy in shifting the purchasing preferences of “green” organic consumers towards a subset of “greener” products that foster adaptation to climate change. We focus on organic pasta, a widely consumed food, to conduct field experiment that...

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Competition in the presence of individual demand uncertainty

Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - 2013

This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We introduce individual demand uncertainty into Hotellingś model of product differentiation and show that firms offer advance purchase discounts. Consumers choose between an early...

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Information frictions and adverse selection : policy interventions in health insurance markets

Handel, Benjamin R.; Kolstad, Jonathan; Spinnewijn, Johannes - 2015

A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically assuming informed, active consumers on the demand side of the market. However, recent evidence suggests that many consumers have information frictions that lead to suboptimal...

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History-based price discrimination with imperfect information accuracy and asymmetric market shares

Colombo, Stefano; Graziano, Clara; Pignataro, Aldo - 2021

The paper considers a duopoly model in which firms inherited asymmetric market shares and history-based price discrimination is viable. However, firms can identify only a share of their own consumers depending to the degree of information accuracy. We derive the pricing strategies and we analyze...

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Personalized pricing with imperfect customer recognition

Colombo, Stefano; Graziano, Clara; Pignataro, Aldo - 2023

We consider a duopoly model where firms can identify only a share of consumers, which is positively correlated with the consumer' preferences. Firms charge personalized prices to the consumers they can recognize and a uniform price to the rest of consumers. The firms' available information is...

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