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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...

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How performance based payoffs influence estimates of complex information? An experimental study on quality and precision in estimation tasks

Kroll, Eike Benjamin; Rieger, Jörg; Vogt, Bodo - 2011

information and the introduction of performance-based payoffs have an influence on judgement. Therefore, an experiment is designed …

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Quasi-Rational R&D Behavior in an Environment with Fundamental Uncertainty

Dimmig, Anne-Kathrin; Erlei, Mathias - 2012

uncertainty. We designed a multi-period experiment in which each period consisted of two stages, an R&D phase and a pricing stage …. Participants in the experiment had almost no information about the underlying functions, parameters, and probabilities. Subjects …’ behavior in the fundamentally uncertain environment of our experiment may best be characterized as some kind of procedural …

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985441

Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793097