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The Delegation of Decision Rights: An Experimental Investigation

Coats, Jennifer C.; Rankin, Frederick W. - In: Advances in management accounting., (pp. 39-71). 2016

design an experiment to explore the superior’s choice between delegation and information elicitation. We also examine the … effect of the superiors’ choice on the amount of effort provided by subordinates to gather decision-facilitating information … lower effort when superiors elicit information than when superiors delegate the decision to them. As a result, superiors …

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Does Group Identity Prevent Inefficient Investment in Outside Options? An Experimental Investigation

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - In: Experiments in organizational economics, (pp. 105-126). 2016

We study whether group identity mitigates inefficiencies associated with appropriable quasi-rents, which are often created by relationship-specific investments in bilateral trade relationships. We conjecture that group identity strengthens the effect of an agent’s generous action in increasing...

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The Effect of Detection Risk on Uncertain Tax Position Reporting: Experimental Evidence

Lee, Robert; Curatola, Anthony P. - In: Advances in taxation, (pp. 177-198). 2015

schedule individually disclosing each of their uncertain tax positions (UTPs). This study uses an experiment to examine how …

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Replication in Experimental Economics

Deck, Cary A. (ed.); Fatas, Enrique (ed.); … - In: Replication in experimental economics, (pp. iii). 2015

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The Impact of Social Information on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Replication Study

Murphy, James J.; Batmunkh, Nomin; Nilsson, Benjamin; … - In: Replication in experimental economics, (pp. 41-50). 2015

Shang and Croson (2009) found that providing information about the donation decisions of others can have a positive … that social information affected donation decisions. However, most of our donors were renewing members, a group which Shang … and Croson also found was not influenced by social information. …

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Insights from In-Store Marketing Experiments

Nordfält, Jens; Grewal, Dhruv; Roggeveen, Anne L.; … - In: Shopper marketing and the role of in-store marketing, (pp. 127-146). 2014

Retailers increasingly experiment with a wide variety of store elements; this chapter focuses on in-store marketing … tactics and reports the results of 12 in-store experiments conducted in cooperation with different retail chains. Experiments … merchandise and deeper into shopping aisles. Experiments 4–6 explore the impact of the organization of a display (vertical …

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Experiments in Macroeconomics

Duffy, John (ed.) - In: Experiments in macroeconomics, (pp. iii). 2014

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An Experiment on Consumption Responses to Future Prices and Interest Rates

Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Roos, Michael W. M.; Scharler, Johann - In: Experiments in macroeconomics, (pp. 139-166). 2014

We design an experiment to investigate the influence of announced future variations in interest rates and prices on …

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The Short-Term Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship on Student Outcomes

Bartik, Timothy J.; Lachowska, Marta - In: New analyses of worker well-being, (pp. 37-76). 2014

school, we use one aspect of the Kalamazoo Promise that resembles a quasi-experiment. The surprise announcement of the …

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The Effect of Experience on Perceived Communication Skills: Comparisons between Accounting Professionals and Students

Lin, Ping; Krishnan, Sudha; Grace, Debra - In: Advances in accounting education : teaching and …, (pp. 131-152). 2013

This chapter reports how accounting professionals and students perceive the proficiency of their communication skills. We find that professionals perceive themselves as having higher interpersonal skills, writing skills, and speaking skills than do students. Despite decades of accounting...

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