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Adrian Beck

Researcher at University of Innsbruck

Publications -  11
Citations -  686

Adrian Beck is an academic researcher from University of Innsbruck. The author has contributed to research in topics: Credence good & Service (business). The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 10 publications receiving 622 citations. Previous affiliations of Adrian Beck include Institute for the Study of Labor.

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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of fraud.
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, G reece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' p resumed information and income on the extent of fraud.
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Car Mechanics in the Lab - Investigating the Behavior of Real Experts on Experimental Markets for Credence Goods

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether professional car mechanics react in the same way to changes in informational and institutional constraints, and find qualitatively similar effects in the fraud dimensions of undertreatment and overcharging for both subject pools, which could be a result of decision heuristics they learned in their professional training.
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The hidden costs of tax evasion. Collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the goods.
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Shaping beliefs in experimental markets for expert services: Guilt aversion and the impact of promises and money-burning options

TL;DR: In a credence goods game with an expert and a consumer, the impact of two devices that are predicted to induce consumer-friendly behavior if the expert has a propensity to feel guilty when he believes that he violates the consumer's payoff expectations are studied.