Journal: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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J Econ Behav Organ

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Elsevier

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0167-2681

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  • Fairness, errors and the power of competition
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    Fischbacher, Urs; Fong, Christina M.; Fehr, Ernst (2009)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Empirical calibration of adaptive learning
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    Berardi, Michele; Galimberti, Jaqueson K. (2017)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Interest-group size and legislative lobbying
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schneider, Maik T. (2014)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Can information about energy costs affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a field experiment
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    Boogen, Nina; Daminato, Claudio; Filippini, Massimo; et al. (2022)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
    Whether consumers are fully informed and attentive when investing in energy efficiency is still hotly debated. We experimentally evaluate the role of imperfect information about or limited attention to energy costs in the demand for energy-consuming household durables in Switzerland. Using in-home visits, we collect unique data on the characteristics of participants’ current home appliances and light bulbs. Our intervention exploits this data to provide customized information about the potential of monetary savings from adopting new, comparable, and efficient durables. We find a substantial information treatment effect on the energy efficiency of the newly purchased durables. A larger potential of monetary savings induces larger durables choices responses. These findings provide suggestive evidence that the informational content of our intervention played a significant role in determining the observed durables choices responses.
  • Firms’ entry choices across export products and markets, and the consequences of trade in an open economy: Evidence from China
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    Egger, Peter; Li, Jie; Wu, Han (2023)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
    We outline a model of endogenous choices of market entry and product scope in a partial-equilibrium model of heterogeneous firms with arbitrary productivity. Firms’ choices of interest depend on market characteristics including variable trade and fixed market-entry costs. Conditional on fixed costs, the extent to which firms respond to shocks depends on their (potentially nonparametric) density around the zero-profit threshold. Accordingly, identical changes in, e.g., variable trade costs per product and market can lead to vastly different responses across not only markets and products but also firms. We shed light on the heterogeneity of these responses by estimating parameters and otherwise calibrating the model to firm-and-product-level bilateral trade data for China.
  • Bubble diagnosis and prediction of the 2005–2007 and 2008–2009 Chinese stock market bubbles
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    Jiang, Zhi-Qiang; Zhou, Wei-Xing; Sornette, Didier; et al. (2010)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Local far-right demonstrations and nationwide public attitudes towards migration
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    Freitas-Monteiro, Teresa; Prömel, Christopher (2024)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
    One of the primary objectives of protests and demonstrations is to bring social, political, or economic issues to the attention of politicians and the wider population. While protests can have a mobilising and persuading effect, they may reduce support for their cause if they are perceived as a threat to public order. In this study, we look at how local or spontaneously organised right-wing xenophobic demonstrations affect concerns about hostility towards foreigners and worries about immigration among natives in Germany. We use a regression discontinuity design to compare the attitudes of individuals interviewed in the days immediately before a large far-right demonstration and individuals interviewed in the days immediately after that demonstration. Our results show that large far-right demonstrations lead to a substantial increase in worries about hostility towards foreigners of 13.7% of a standard deviation. In contrast, worries about immigration are not affected by the demonstrations, indicating that the protesters are not successful in swaying public opinion in their favour. In the heterogeneity analyses, we uncover some polarisation in the population: While worries about hostility against foreigners increase and worries about immigration decrease in left-leaning regions, both types of worries increase in districts where centre-right parties are more successful. Lastly, we also show that people become more politically interested in response to protests, mainly benefiting left-wing parties, and are more likely to wish to donate money to help refugees.
  • Super-exponential endogenous bubbles in an equilibrium model of fundamentalist and chartist traders
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    Kaizoji, Taisei; Leiss, Matthias; Saichev, Alexander; et al. (2015)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Unobserved tax avoidance and the tax elasticity of FDI
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    Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg (2014)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Voluntary pooling of genetic risk: A health insurance experiment
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    Mimra, Wanda; Nemitz, Janina; Waibel, Christian (2020)
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
    Scientific and technological advances increasingly allow for better tailoring of health insurance plans to individual health risk profiles. This development questions the sustainability of health plans that feature strong cross-subsidization across different health risk types and health behaviors. An important observation is that the willingness to cross-subsidize risks in health plans might depend on whether the risk is uncontrollable by individuals, such as genetic risk, or modifiable via health behaviors. This paper provides the results of an experiment on the willingness to pool genetic risk in health insurance. Subjects’ overall health risk has an assigned, uncontrollable genetic risk part that differs across individuals as well as a behavioral risk part, which can be reduced by costly effort. Participants can decide between a pooling, community-rated group insurance scheme and an insurance with a fully individually risk-adjusted premium. In the experimental variation, the group insurance scheme either includes behavioral risk or separates it out via individual premium discounts. Although we observe social preferences for pooling, only a low level of actual genetic risk pooling emerges across the experimental conditions. This is due to both large heterogeneity in social preferences across subjects, and the dynamics of the willingness to pay for group insurance in the different experimental markets.
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