Social Preferences and Moral Biases (2009)
An emerging consensus in economics is that three motives are at work in strategic decisions: distributive preferences, reciprocal preferences and self-interest. An important obstacle, however, has...
Why individuals make charitable contributions and voluntarily provide public goods is an important question in modern society. Extensive research on voluntary contributions has been conducted by...
Manuscript Motives for Giving: A Reanalysis of Two Classic Public Goods Experiments* (2008)
A Richard Ashley, A Sheryl Ball, Jimmy Walker, Rachel Croson
Experimental work in economics prompted the development of theories of other-regarding behavior. In this paper we reanalyze two classic public goods experiments and focus on the nature individuals’...
Demand Reduction in Multi-Unit Auctions: (2007)
Evidence From Sportscard, John A. List, David Lucking-reiley, Catherine Co, Peter Cramton, Rachel Croson, ...
Recent auction theory suggests that multi-unit uniform-price auctions, as used by the U.S. Treasury for debt sales, produce incentives that may cause bidders to bid less than their true valuations,...
Double Standards: Social Preferences and Moral Biases (2007)
A consensus seems to be emerging in economics that at least three motives are at work in many strategic decisions: distributive preferences, reciprocal preferences and self-interest. An important...
An experimental analysis of conditional cooperation (2006)
Croson, Rachel, Fatas, Enrique, Neugebauer, Tibor
Experimental and empirical evidence identifies the existence of socialpreferences and proposes competing models of such preferences. In this paper, wefurther examine one such social preference:...
Biases in casino betting (2006)
We examine two departures of individual perceptions of randomness from probability theory: the hot hand and the gambler's fallacy, and their respective opposites. This paper's first contribution is...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading (2005)
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making. Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to the unavailability...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading (2005)
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making.Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to theunavailability of...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading (2005)
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making. Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to the unavailability...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading (2005)
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making. Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to the unavailability...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading (2005)
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making.Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to theunavailability of...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading (2005)
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making.Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to theunavailability of...
Noah Gans, George Knox, Rachel Croson
Recent operations management papers model customers as solving multi-armed bandit prob-lems, positing that consumers use a particular heuristic when choosing among suppliers. These papers then...
An Economist’s Guide to Negotiation Classroom Experiments (2005)
Negotiation is an active and growing research and teaching area. Basic concepts from Negotiation can be profitably integrated into economics classes. The course is typically taught experientially,...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading (2005)
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making.Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to theunavailability of...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading (2005)
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making.Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to theunavailability of...
Reciprocity, matching and conditional Cooperation in two public goods games (2004)
Neugebauer, Tibor, Fatás Juberías, Enrique, Croson, Rachel
Previous experimental and empirical evidence has identified social preferences in the voluntary provision of public goods. A number of competing models of such preferences have been proposed. We...
Reciprocity, Matching and Conditional Cooperation in Two Public Goods Games (2004)
Croson, Rachel, Fatás, Enrique, Neugebauer, Tibor
Previous experimental and empirical evidence has identified social preferences in the voluntary provision of public goods. A number of competing models of such preferences have been proposed. We...
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economic Literature Gender Differences in Preferences (2004)
Economists and policy-makers have observed gender differences in a number of different domains, including consumption, investment and, perhaps of most concern, in the labor market. Two main empirical...
Gender Differences in Preferences (2004)
Economists and policy-makers have observed gender differences in a number of different domains, including consumption, investment and, perhaps of most concern, in the labor market. Two main empirical...
Order stability in supply chains: Coordination risk and the role of coordination stock (2004)
Rachel Croson, Karen Donohue, Elena Katok, John Sterman, Rachel Croson A, Karen Donohue B, ...
The bullwhip effect describes the tendency for the variance of orders in supply chains to increase as one moves upstream from consumer demand. Previous research attributes this phenomenon to both...
Incentive-Compatible Mechanisms for Pure Public Goods: A Survey of Experimental Research (1999)
Yan Chen, Rachel Croson, John Kagel, John Ledyard, Bart Lipman, John Morgan, ...
This article surveys experimental research on these "new mechanisms", i.e., incentive-compatible mechanisms for pure public goods.
Experimental Evidence on the (1999)
Endogenous Entry Of, David Lucking-reiley, Rachel Croson, Glenn Ellison, Elton Hinshaw, Dan Levin
This paper tests the empirical predictions of recent theories of the endogenous entry of bidders in auctions. Data come from a field experiment, involving sealed-bid auctions for collectible trading...
Using Field Experiments to Test Equivalence between Auction Formats: Magic on the Internet (1999)
David Lucking-Reiley, Ann Bell, Jim Cox, Rachel Croson, Ron Harstad, Elton Hinshaw, ...
William Vickrey's predicted equivalences between first-price sealed-bid and Dutch auctions, and between second-price sealed-bid and English auctions, are tested using field experiments that...
Reciprocity, Matching and Conditional Cooperation in Two Public Goods Games
Rachel Croson, Enrique Fatás, Tibor Neugebauer
Previous experimental and empirical evidence has identified social preferences in the voluntary provision of public goods. A number of competing models of such preferences have been proposed. We...
Double Standards: Social Preferences and Moral Biases
A consensus seems to be emerging in economics that at least three motives are at work in many strategic decisions: distributive preferences, reciprocal preferences and self-interest. An important...
Step Returns in Threshold Public Goods: A Meta- and Experimental Analysis
One important determinant of voluntary contributions to public goods is the value of the public good relative to that of the forgone private good. Isaac, Walker and Thomas (1984) formalized this...
Experimental Economics and Other-Regarding Preferences: Public Goods Experiments
This talk will describe a stream of research in experimental economics focusing on the illumination and demonstration of other-regarding preferences (ORPs). Evidence will come primarily from public...
The Gambler’s Fallacy and the Hot Hand: Empirical Data from Casinos
Research on decision making under uncertainty demonstrates that intuitive ideas of randomness depart systematically from the laws of chance. Two such departures involving random sequences of events...
AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF CONDITIONAL COOPERATION
Rachel Croson, Enrique Fatas, Tibor Neugebauer
Experimental and empirical evidence identifies the existence of socialpreferences and proposes competing models of such preferences. In this paper, wefurther examine one such social preference:...
Reciprocity, Matching and Conditional Cooperation in Two Public Goods Games
Rachel Croson, Enrique Fatás, Tibor Neugebauer
Previous experimental and empirical evidence has identified social preferences in the voluntary provision of public goods. A number of competing models of such preferences have been proposed. We...
Experimental Results on Bargaining Under Alternative Property Rights Regimes.
Croson, Rachel, Johnston, Jason Scott
The effect of alternative property rights regimes on the choice between taking an object and acquiring it via a consensual exchange is experimentally explored in a two-period screening game. Results...
The Effect of Recommended Contributions in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods.
Croson, Rachel, Marks, Melanie
Recommended contributions are often observed in fundraising campaigns for charitable and other public goods. We present an experiment investigating the impact of recommended contributions in a...
Investment decisions and emissions reductions: results from experiments in emissions trading
Gangadharan, Lata, Farrell, Alex, Croson, Rachel
Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making.Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to theunavailability of...
Charles Cadsby, Rachel Croson, Melanie Marks, Elizabeth Maynes
Threshold public good, Experiment, Step return, Net reward, Adversarial collaboration, H41, C90,
The impact of downward social information on contribution decisions
Social influence, Social information, Social comparison, Charitable giving, Public goods, C72, C93, H41,
Biases in casino betting: The hot hand and the gambler's fallacy
We examine two departures of individual perceptions of randomness from probability theory: the hot hand and the gambler's fallacy, and their respective opposites. This paper's first contribution is...
Decision Making in Strategic Alliances: An Experimental Investigation
Agarwal, Rajshree, Croson, Rachel, Mahoney, Joseph T.
This paper experimentally investigates the determinants of the deviation between potential and realized value creation in strategic alliances. To better understand how decision making in alliances...
Does Disputing through Agents Enhance Cooperation? Experimental Evidence.
Croson, Rachel, Mnookin, Robert H
A distinctive characteristic of our mechanisms for conflict resolution is that litigation is carried out by agents chosen by disputing principals. Does the fact that clients choose lawyers to carry...
Partners versus Strangers: Random Rematching in Public Goods Experiments
Andreoni, James, Croson, Rachel, Charles R. Plott, Vernon L. Smith
Local Residential Sorting and Public Goods Provision: A Classroom Demonstration
Keith Brouhle, Jay Corrigan, Rachel Croson, Martin Farnham, Luba Habodaszova, Laurie Tipton Johnson, ...
This classroom exercise illustrates the Tiebout (1956) hypothesis that residential sorting across multiple jurisdictions leads to a more efficient allocation of local public goods. The exercise...
The impact of information from similar or different advisors on judgment
Gino, Francesca, Shang, Jen, Croson, Rachel
People rely on others' advice to make judgments on a daily basis. In three studies, we examine the differential impacts of similarity between the source of that advice and the person making the...
Gender Differences in Preferences
This paper reviews the literature on gender differences in economic experiments. In the three main sections, we identify robust differences in risk preferences, social (other-regarding) preferences,...
Local Residential Sorting and Public Goods Provision: A Classroom Demonstration
Keith Brouhle, Jay Corrigan, Rachel Croson, Martin Farnham, Selhan Garip, Luba Habodaszova, ...
This classroom exercise illustrates the Tiebout (1956) hypothesis that residential sorting across multiple jurisdictions leads to a more efficient allocation of local public goods. The exercise...
We study the effect of social information on the voluntary provision of public goods. Competing theories predict that others' contributions might be either substitutes or complements to one's own. We...