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This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered probit, generalized ordered probit and pseudo panel...
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We examine whether shrouding or partitioning of a surcharge raises demand in online shopping. In a field experiment … for a 3D movie when the 3D surcharge is shrouded, but they also drop out more often when the overall price is shown at the … checkout. In sum, the demand distribution is independent of the price presentation. This result outlines the limits of the …
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This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
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and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price … available and sometimes even choose an advert that is dominated in price and non-price characteristics (such as seller …
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price expectations. In an incentivised valuation task, participants are endowed with a mug and provide their willingness to … accept (WTA) to sell it. We manipulate the sale price in a separate, exogenous forced sale scenario, which is predicted to … produce a 'comparison effect', moving WTA in the opposite direction to the forced sale price. Consistent with the theory, we …
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This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect other attributes, the markets for the product's complements and substitutes, and aggregate quantity produced. These factors are shown to be empirically relevant and to cause bias...
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...
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within a particular range. We test the hypotheses in a lab experiment with a large number of subjects (N = 308), using a well …
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A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we …
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We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts - independently of whether...
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