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Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement
The American Economic Review, 2023 Current refugee resettlement processes account for neither the preferences of refugees nor the priorities of hosting communities. We introduce a new framework for matching with multidimensional knapsack constraints that captures the (possibly ...
David Delacrétaz +2 more
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Data, Competition, and Digital Platforms [PDF]
Social Science Research Network, 2023 A monopolist platform uses data to match heterogeneous consumers with multiproduct sellers. The consumers can purchase the products on the platform or search off the platform.
D. Bergemann, A. Bonatti
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Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
The American Economic Review, 2022 A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each time.
David Huffman, Collin Raymond, J. Shvets
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, 2006 We analyze the consequences of control on motivation in an experimental principalagent game, where the principal can control the agent by implementing a minimum performance requirement before the agent chooses a productive activity. Our results show that
A. Falk, M. Kosfeld
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Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment
The American Economic Review, 2023 Moral behavior is more prevalent when individuals cannot easily distort their beliefs self-servingly. Do individuals seek to limit or enable their ability to distort beliefs? How do these choices affect behavior?
Silvia Saccardo, Marta Serra-Garcia
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The Good News-Bad News Effect: Asymmetric Processing of Objective Information about Yourself
, 2011 We study processing and acquisition of objective information regarding qualities that people care about, intelligence and beauty. Subjects receiving negative feedback did not respect the strength of these signals, were far less predictable in their ...
David Eil, Justin M. Rao
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Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries
The American Economic Review, 2023 I study the economic value of obesity—a status symbol in poor countries associated with raised health risks. Randomizing decision-makers in Kampala, Uganda to view weight-manipulated portraits, I find that obesity is perceived as a reliable signal of ...
E. Macchi
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Raising the Bar: Certification Thresholds and Market Outcomes
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023 Certification of sellers by trusted third parties helps alleviate information asymmetries in markets, yet little is known about the impact of a certification’s threshold on market outcomes.
Xiang Hui +3 more
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Personalized Pricing and Competition
The American Economic ReviewWe study personalized pricing in a general oligopoly model. The impact of personalized pricing relative to uniform pricing hinges on the degree of market coverage.
Andrew Rhodes, Jidong Zhou
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Experimental Cost of Information
The American Economic Review, 2022 We relate two main representations of the cost of acquiring information: a cost that depends on the experiment performed, as in statistical decision theory, and a cost that depends on the distribution of posterior beliefs, as in applications of rational ...
Tommaso Denti +2 more
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