We analyse pricing, effort and tipping decisions in the online service "Google Answers". While users set a price for the answer to their question ex ante, they can additionally give a tip to the researcher ex post. In line with the related experimental literature we find evidence that tipping is...

We analyse pricing, effort and tipping decisions at the online service ‘Google Answers’. Users set a price for the answer to their question ex ante, and they can additionally tip the researcher who provided the answer ex post.

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

The main research streams, which focus on signals, signalling theory and cue utilization theory stress the importance of a producers´ credibility or reputation as an important factor that determines a signals´ potential to reduce customers´ risks and to motivate customers to adopt a...

Die Zielgr��e "Beziehungserfolg" stellt bei der Analyse von B2B-Gesch�ftsbeziehungen seit langem eine erhebliche Rolle. In diesem Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Gr��en typischer Beziehungsmodelle sich ver�ndern, wenn die Transaktionen �ber eine...