What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 876-891

  Balafoutas, Loukas ^a   Beck, Adrian ^a   Kerschbamer, Rudolf ^a   Sutter, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Credence goods; Distributional preferences; Expert services; Fraud; Natural field experiment; Taxi rides

Indexed keywords

CRIME; INCOME; MARKET SYSTEM; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TARIFF STRUCTURE; TAXI TRANSPORT;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84880750576     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rds049     Document Type: Article

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