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Monitoring in small firms : experimental evidence from Kenyan public transit
Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V.; Schönholzer, David - In: American economic review 114 (2024) 10, pp. 3119-3160
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015403744
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Decision-making modes and decision-making biases : improving decisions in escalation of commitment situations by triggering considerations?
Kotzian, Peter - In: International journal of economics and business … 29 (2025) 2, pp. 113-136
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Does lab funding matter for the technological application of scientific research? : an empirical analysis of French labs
Kalash, Basheer; Guillou, Sarah; Nesta, Lionel; … - In: Annals of economics and statistics 153 (2024), pp. 39-76
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Trust and social preferences in times of acute health crisis
Casoria, Fortuna; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie-Claire - In: Annals of economics and statistics 154 (2024), pp. 5-50
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015404147
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The voluntary provision of a public good with binding multi-round commitments
Halloran, Matthew A.; Walker, James; Williams, Arlington W. - In: Experiments investigating fundraising and charitable …, (pp. 225-246). 2006
This paper examines binding multi-round commitments (MRCs) to the group account in a repeated voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) game. Before each five-round interval, subjects in a four-person group are given the option to commit a portion of their endowments to the group account for each...
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Do Donors Care about Subsidy Type? An Experimental Study
Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip Johnson - In: Experiments investigating fundraising and charitable …, (pp. 157-175). 2006
experiments contradict these straightforward predictions of standard economic theory: subjects consistently make decisions that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015385722
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The Impact of Social Comparisons on Nonprofit Fund Raising
Shang, Jen; Croson, Rachel Toni Algaze - In: Experiments investigating fundraising and charitable …, (pp. 143-156). 2006
from a field experiment involving contribution to a public radio station. Some callers are told of the contributions … decisions of others, and other callers are given no such information. We find that providing ambitions (high) social comparison … information can significantly increase contributions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015385723
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The Optimal Design of Charitable Lotteries: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Lange, Andreas; List, John A.; Price, Michael Keith; … - In: Experiments investigating fundraising and charitable …, (pp. 93-119). 2006
Charitable lotteries represent one of today's most popular fund-raising schemes. This study begins by developing theory examining the optimal design of a charitable lottery. We show that any prize distribution is only optimal for a group of n symmetric agents with given risk preference. However,...
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Raising Revenues for Charity: Auctions Versus Lotteries
Davis, Douglas D.; Razzolini, Laura; Reilly, Robert J.; … - In: Experiments investigating fundraising and charitable …, (pp. 47-91). 2006
We report an experiment conducted to gain insight into factors that may affect revenues in English auctions and …
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Sealed Bid Variations on the Silent Auction
Isaac, R. Mark; Schnier, Kurt - In: Experiments investigating fundraising and charitable …, (pp. 31-46). 2006
price silent auction. In a new series of laboratory experiments, we investigate the effects of the different institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015385727