[This post presents the paper Helping consumers with a front-of-pack label: numbers or colours? the paper can be downloaded here.] Bad eating habits have negative consequences. We have always known as much. But the rise of obesity in the last decades is impressive and apparently unstoppable. Only a handful of US states had more than … Continue reading Nutritional labeling: numbers or colors? A new paper→| Paolo Crosetto
The world is a strange place. Unknown of until recent years, crowdfunding platforms – like Kickstarter or Indiegogo – are making the headlines around the world. Thousands of people are donating money to help artists produce their records, graphic novels, video games; or to allow geeks to produce a tool to transform bananas in a … Continue reading It’s never too late for (pre)-sales: the dynamics of crowdfunding→| Paolo Crosetto
Imagine there are three firms in an industry. They sell a homogeneous product (say, internet access): the product of firm 1 is a perfect substitute of the products of firms 2 and 3. Imagine firms can compete only on price. How will the market share depend on the price the firms decide to set? Now, … Continue reading Price and format competition with consumer confusion (a new paper with Alexia Gaudeul)→| Paolo Crosetto
The nice people at The Transatlantic have just released online the latest issue of their Economics and Philosophy student journal. I have contributed a short article on the woes of copyright as we know it. It deals with Zombies, Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice, copyleft, property rights and some experimental evidence. Enjoy!| Paolo Crosetto
This post introduces the BRET paper by Paolo Crosetto and Antonio Filippin. Download it on SSRN! When investigating issues in experimental economics we need to be able to control for those characteristics of the subjects that can affect the results. One of the traits we usually try to control for is the attitude of people … Continue reading Introducing the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task – a new paper→| Paolo Crosetto
We know that having choices is great, but we also know that too much choice is not a good thing. Try to enter an online shop to get hold of a mobile phone – or, worse, a mobile phone tariff plan. Or, easier yet, just pop by your local supermarket and look at the mustard … Continue reading competition vs. confusopoly – a new paper→| Paolo Crosetto
Never stop in one place for more than two days – that’s my quote of the month. I have been to a bunch of conferences around the world, and this post is but a way of keeping record of the people I’ve met and things I’ve discovered. OSS2010 This was a fantastically organised conference /thanks … Continue reading June is the cruellest month… or how to go round the world for conferences, and survive→| Paolo Crosetto
I just finished my PhD in Milan, and I am moving on to join the DPTEA Economics Department in LUISS, Roma. In Roma I will be making research on the usual Open Source and innovation economics topics…| Paolo Crosetto
I have been at a very good conference in Jena in experiments and innovation economics, organised by Marco Guerzoni (here). I have presented my experimental paper on the Bessen-Maskin argument again…| Paolo Crosetto
Edit April 20th, 2021: thanks to Christos Petrou I found a bug in my code. I was considering both “Section” and “Collection” articles as Speical Issue. The whole analysis ha…| Paolo Crosetto
