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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003675359
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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007 - This version: 15 October 2007
more likely to win the auction when teams bid. -- UMTS auction ; team decision-making ; experiment ; winner's curse …We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even … relied on individual bidders. Our results show that teams stay on average longer in an (ascending sealed-bid English) auction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731143
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Competing trade mechanisms and monotone mechanism choice
Feess, Eberhard; Grund, Christian; Walzl, Markus; … - 2014 - This version: November 3, 2014
We analyze mechanism choices of competing sellers with private valuations and show the existence of monotone pure strategy equilibria where sellers with higher reservation value choose mechanisms with a lower selling probability and a larger revenue in case of trade. As an application we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428738
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Competing trade mechanisms and monotone mechanism choice
Feess, Eberhard; Grund, Christian; Walzl, Markus; … - 2015 - This version: December 19, 2014
We analyze mechanism choices of competing sellers with private valuations and show the existence of monotone pure strategy equilibria where sellers with higher reservation value choose mechanisms with a lower selling probability and a larger revenue in case of trade. As an application we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470913
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Public procurement and supplier job creation : insights from auctions
Srhoj, Stjepan; Dragojević, Melko - 2021 - This draft October 5, 2021
Public procurement contracts (PPCs) of goods, services and works is about one tenth of global gross domestic product. Much research has been conducted on government spending and its aggregate effects, but evidence is scarce at the micro-level. This study exploits sealed-bid PPC auctions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650218
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008657598
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Car mechanics in the lab : investigating the behavior of real experts on experimental markets for credence goods
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2014 - This Version: December 25th, 2013
Credence goods, such as car repairs or medical services, are characterized by severe informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers, leading to fraud in the form of provision of insufficient service (undertreatment), provision of unnecessary service (overtreatment) and charging too much...
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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
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Psychological pressure in competitive environments : evidence from a randomized natural experiment: comment
Feri, Francesco; Innocenti, Alessandro; Pin, Paolo - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229054
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law …. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009735335