Honesty and Efficiency in the Provision of Expert Services: Doctors and other Experts as Participants in Economic Experiments

Overview

Project status: In progress

Experts serve us when we see the doctor, the financial planner, or the car mechanic. In all these cases, the expert can take advantage of his superior knowledge to sell us something we do not need.

This research will inform policy makers about the underlying motives of real world experts and allow them to design better institutions.

Grantor

Australian Research Council (ARC)

Amount

  • 2011: $125,000

  • 2012: $68,000

  • 2012: $77,000

Research team
QUT External collaborators

  • Prof Dr Matthias Sutter

  • Dr Rudolf Kerschbamer

Organisational unit
Lead unit School of Economics and Finance Other units
Research area
Economics