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Original Articles

An empirical investigation of rewards’ effect on experimental auctions outcomes

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Pages 1298-1300 | Published online: 02 Jul 2013
 

Abstract

We examine the effect of earned participation rewards on willingness to pay (WTP) bids in experimental auctions. Our results show that when subjects are provided with a fixed reward, they bid more than those who had to earn their reward.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Prof. Jason L. Lusk for his helpful inputs in designing the experiment and valuable suggestions and comments on a previous version of the paper. The authors assume full responsibility for any remaining errors.

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