Endowment effects? “Even” with half a million on the table!

Volume: 68, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 173 - 192
Published: May 20, 2009
Abstract
In the television show Deal or No Deal, a contestant is endowed with a sealed box containing a monetary prize between one cent and half a million euros. In the course of the show, the contestant is offered to exchange her box for another sealed box with the same distribution of possible monetary prizes inside. This offers a unique natural experiment for studying endowment effects under high monetary incentives. We find evidence of only a weak...
Paper Details
Title
Endowment effects? “Even” with half a million on the table!
Published Date
May 20, 2009
Volume
68
Issue
1-2
Pages
173 - 192
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