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Cumulative attraction and spatial dependence in a destination choice model for beach recreation (2017)
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Matthews, Y., Scarpa, R., & Marsh, D. (2017). Cumulative attraction and spatial dependence in a destination choice model for beach recreation. Tourism Management, 66, 318-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.12.009

The destination choices of individual recreationalists are dependent on the spatial distribution of sites and attractions. An important issue in destination choice modelling is how to account for the effects of cumulative attraction from multiple sit... Read More about Cumulative attraction and spatial dependence in a destination choice model for beach recreation.

Revisiting loss aversion: Evidence from professional tennis (2017)
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Anbarci, N., Arin, K., Kuhlenkasper, T., & Zenker, C. (2017). Revisiting loss aversion: Evidence from professional tennis. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 153, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.10.014

We provide further evidence for the existence of loss aversion in a high-stakes context: professional tennis. Our contribution to the literature is threefold: (1) We provide a theoretical framework as a basis of our investigation, (2) we test the pre... Read More about Revisiting loss aversion: Evidence from professional tennis.

Cohort size and youth labour-market outcomes in Europe (2017)
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Moffat, J., & Roth, D. (2017). Cohort size and youth labour-market outcomes in Europe. Economics Bulletin, 37(4), 2735-2740

Using data from 49 European regions covering 2005-2012, this paper estimates the effect of cohort size on youth employment and unemployment outcomes. The effects are found to be very sensitive to the age range of the sample used for estimation. In pa... Read More about Cohort size and youth labour-market outcomes in Europe.

How fully do people exploit their bargaining position? The effects of bargaining institution and the 50–50 norm (2017)
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Anbarci, N., & Feltovich, N. (2018). How fully do people exploit their bargaining position? The effects of bargaining institution and the 50–50 norm. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 145, 320-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.11.020

A recurring puzzle in bargaining experiments is that individuals under-exploit their bargaining position, compared to theoretical predictions. We conduct an experiment using two institutions: Nash demand game (NDG) and unstructured bargaining game (U... Read More about How fully do people exploit their bargaining position? The effects of bargaining institution and the 50–50 norm.

Evolutionary stability of bargaining and price posting: implications for formal and informal activities (2017)
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Anbarci, N., Gomis-Porqueras, P., & Pivato, M. (2017). Evolutionary stability of bargaining and price posting: implications for formal and informal activities. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 28(2), 365-397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-017-0544-2

In this paper we study the co-existence of two well known trading protocols, bargaining and price-posting. To do so we consider a frictional environment where buyers and sellers play price-posting and bargaining games infinitely many times. Sellers s... Read More about Evolutionary stability of bargaining and price posting: implications for formal and informal activities.

Policy Choice and Economic Growth under Factional Politics:Evidence from a Chinese Province (2017)
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Li, D., & Zhang, Q. (2018). Policy Choice and Economic Growth under Factional Politics:Evidence from a Chinese Province. China Economic Review, 47, 12-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.11.003

This paper investigates how political elites make policy choices that have bearing on an authoritarian regime's economy, from the perspective of factional politics. A local leader makes policies primarily to secure his political survival, which is co... Read More about Policy Choice and Economic Growth under Factional Politics:Evidence from a Chinese Province.

Reward schemes (2017)
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Lagziel, D., & Lehrer, E. (2018). Reward schemes. Games and Economic Behavior, 107, 21-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.10.019

An investor has some funds invested through portfolio managers. By the end of the year, she reallocates the funds among these managers according to the managers' performance. While the investor tries to maximize her subjective utility (that depends o... Read More about Reward schemes.

Joint parental school choice: exploring the influence of individual preferences of husbands and wives (2017)
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Mariel, P., Scarpa, R., & Vega-Bayo, A. (2018). Joint parental school choice: exploring the influence of individual preferences of husbands and wives. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 68, 23-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.10.017

The objective of this paper is to study school choice as a deliberate joint parental decision. This decision is affected by the underlying preferences of the husband and wife. We use survey data from a sample of parents in the metropolitan area of Bi... Read More about Joint parental school choice: exploring the influence of individual preferences of husbands and wives.

Comparing Serial, and Choice Task Stated and Inferred Attribute Non-Attendance Methods in Food Choice Experiments (2017)
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Caputo, V., van Loo, E., Scarpa, R., Nayga Jr., R., & Verbeke, W. (2018). Comparing Serial, and Choice Task Stated and Inferred Attribute Non-Attendance Methods in Food Choice Experiments. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 69(1), 35-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12246

A number of choice experiment (CE) studies have shown that survey respondents employ heuristics such as attribute non-attendance (ANA) while evaluating food products. This paper addresses a set of related methodological questions using empirical cons... Read More about Comparing Serial, and Choice Task Stated and Inferred Attribute Non-Attendance Methods in Food Choice Experiments.

Information control in reputational cheap talk (2017)
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Anbarci, N., Ghosh, S., & Roy, J. (2017). Information control in reputational cheap talk. Games and Economic Behavior, 106, 153-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.09.010

An evaluator estimates as precisely as possible the innate talent of a careerist expert by observing the expert's performance in a prediction task, and has the ability to interfere with the expert's private signal by affecting its precision. The expe... Read More about Information control in reputational cheap talk.