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direct and indirect connections. In addition to forming (costly) links, agents choose actions for a coordination game that … determines the level of decay of each link. We address the issues of coordination (long-run equilibrium selection) and network … risk-dominance play a crucial role in the long-run behavior of the system. -- coordination ; networks ; risk …
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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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Entry decisions in market entry games usually depend on the belief about how many others are entering the market, the belief about the own rank in a real effort task, and subjects' risk preferences. In this paper I am able to replicate these basic results and examine two further dimensions: (i)...
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learned in their professional training. -- artefactual field experiment ; car mechanics ; credence goods …
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We study credence goods markets where an expert not only cares for her own monetary payoff, but also for the monetary payoff of her customer. We show how an expert with heterogeneous distributional preferences responds to monetary incentives in the absence of institutions, under liability and/or...
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decisions in an experimental dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team …) and in our paper are discussed. -- experiment ; dictator game ; team behavior ; social preferences …
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