Honesty in the provision of expert services: The effect of naturalistic framings and participants' professions
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Marco Piatti Thesis (PDF 4MB) |
Description
This thesis studies the incentives and behaviour of providers of expert services, like doctors, financial advisors and mechanics. The focus is in particular on provision of health care using a series of credence goods experiments conducted to investigate undertreatment, overtreatment and overcharging in a medical context. The findings of study one suggest that a medical framing compared to a neutral framing significantly increases pro-social behaviour for standard participants in economic experiments. Study two compares the behaviour of medical practitioners - mainly doctors - to students. It is observed that medical doctors’ undertreat and overcharge significantly less, but at the same time overtreat significantly more than students. The final study compares behaviours for other experts - accountants, engineers and lawyers - using experimental framings drawn from the respective contexts and students from the respective faculties as participants in credence goods experiments.
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ID Code: | 94984 |
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Item Type: | QUT Thesis (PhD) |
Supervisor: | Dulleck, Uwe, Torgler, Benno, & Schaffner, Markus |
Keywords: | Artefactual field experiment, Credence goods, Environmental framing, Honesty, Laboratory experiments, Medical framing, Medical professionals, Naturalistic framings, Neutral framing, Tax compliance framing |
Divisions: | Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > QUT Business School Current > Schools > School of Economics & Finance |
Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
Deposited On: | 03 May 2016 01:11 |
Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2020 08:12 |
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