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dc.contributor.advisorHeen, Eirik Eriksen
dc.contributor.authorOlsen, Thomas Norbye
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-02T12:31:33Z
dc.date.available2014-12-02T12:31:33Z
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.description.abstractThis thesis discusses the cognitive bias anchoring observed in economics, psychology and in general. Anchoring effect describes the common human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered (the anchor) when making decisions. The thesis reports on an experiment examining anchoring effect on willingness to pay for a set of consumer goods. In this study I find that the actual willingness to pay for various consumer goods can be manipulated by an uninformative anchor, replicating Ariely et al. (2003). I furthermore demonstrate that the anchoring effect decrease and in some instances vanish under a Vickrey auction.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/6863
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6463
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSOK-3901en
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Samfunnsøkonomi: 212en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212en
dc.titleAnchoring & Auctions - Willingness to pay for public goods and anchoring in an auctionen
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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