Voluntary Payments, Privacy and Social Pressure on the Internet: A Natural Field Experiment
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- Regner, Tobias & Riener, Gerhard, 2012. "Voluntary payments, privacy and social pressure on the internet: A natural field experiment," DICE Discussion Papers 82, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
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Keywords
Digital content; Voluntary Payments; PWYW; Public goods; Voluntary contributions; Social pressure; Internet; Privacy; Natural experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D49 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Other
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
- L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
- P14 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Property Rights
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2013-09-24 (Cognitive & Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2013-09-24 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-ICT-2013-09-24 (Information & Communication Technologies)
- NEP-MKT-2013-09-24 (Marketing)
- NEP-SOC-2013-09-24 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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