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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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Psychological pressure in competitive environments : evidence from a randomized natural experiment : comment
Kocher, Martin; Lenz, Marc V.; Sutter, Matthias - 2010 - This version: 22 March 2010
competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second …. Collecting data for the entire history of six major soccer competitions we cannot replicate their result. Teams kicking first win … coherent criterion for data selection might lead to non-representative findings. -- tournament ; first-mover advantage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736616
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Psychological pressure in competitive environments : evidence from a randomized natural experiment ; comment
Feri, Francesco; Innocenti, Alessandro; Pin, Paolo - 2011
In contrast with Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (2009), we provide laboratory evidence that strictly competitive environments are characterized by a second-mover advantage. This finding is obtained in a setting, a free-throw shooting competition among pairs of professional basket players, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737070
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Psychological pressure in competitive environments : evidence from a randomized natural experiment ; comment
Kocher, Martin; Lenz, Marc V.; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658101
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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571167
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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012 - This version: 26th January 2012
Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, given its illegal and often immoral nature, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737429
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Financial literacy, risk and time preferences : results from a randomized educational intervention
Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2020 - This version: 1 August 2020
We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980932
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The effect of priming on fraud: Evidence from a natural field experiment
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Pearce, Graeme - 2020
We present a natural field experiment designed to examine the extent to which priming can influence the behaviour of sellers in a real world market for credence goods. We employed 40 testers to take 600 taxi journeys in and around Vienna, Austria. Using a between-subject design we vary the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228204
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership : a field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Frederik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008655977