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The WNE Working Papers series has been published by the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw since 2008.

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WP(4/2020)310. "I go, I pay". The role of experience in recognizing the need for public financing of cultural goods

Authors: Jusypenko Bartosz, Wiśniewska Aleksandra
Public financing of culture is a common phenomenon - especially in European countries. Empirical studies reveal that it is socially acceptable and even desirable. However, a question arises: what factors influence support for such a cultural policy? …

WP310. "I go, I pay". The role of experience in recognizing the need for public financing of cultural goods

Public financing of culture is a common phenomenon - especially in European countries. Empirical studies reveal that it is socially acceptable and even desirable. However, a question arises: what factors influence support for such a cultural policy? The study shows that the most important determinant is related to experience - past and future, anticipated. People who often and intensively consume various cultural goods, are also more willing to subsidize them through the public sector. The results of the study not only show that regular contact with culture has a positive impact on understanding the important role of the state in shaping the cultural sector, but also that the attitude towards cultural policy changes rapidly after crossing a certain threshold of experience.


Jusypenko Bartosz, Wiśniewska Aleksandra
cultural policy cultural goods experienced goods rational addiction non-market valuation

WP(14/2017)243. The strength of the anchoring effect on Pay What You Want payments: Evidence from a vignette experiment

Authors: Kukla-Gryz Anna, Zagórska Katarzyna
The goal of this paper is to empirically investigate, on the example of eBooks, the effects of the expected quality, external and internal reference prices, risk-taking propensity and perceived costs of production on the size of the voluntary payment…

WP243. The strength of the anchoring effect on Pay What You Want payments: Evidence from a vignette experiment

The goal of this paper is to empirically investigate, on the example of eBooks, the effects of the expected quality, external and internal reference prices, risk-taking propensity and perceived costs of production on the size of the voluntary payments in pay-what-you-want (PWYW) scheme. Using the results of a vignette experiment, we show that independently from the expected quality of the eBook, when individual internal reference price is higher than external reference price, voluntary payments are significantly higher if external reference price is not provided. When the external reference price is not provided then PWYW payments depend positively on consumers' individual internal reference price, and the perceived percentage of the price believed to cover the author's compensation and the publication costs. The originality of the research comes from separating the anchoring effect of external reference prices from the quality signal effect.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26405/WP/WNE/2017/243/014
Kukla-Gryz Anna, Zagórska Katarzyna
pay-what-you-want cultural goods uncertainty reference price experience goods

WP(25/2015)173. Pushed by the crowd or pulled by the leaders? Peer effects in Pay-What-You-Want

Authors: Krawczyk Michał, Kukla-Gryz Anna, Tyrowicz Joanna
Literature on charitable giving often finds that seed money matters: the example of a wealthy donor is followed by others (List and Lucking-Riley, 2002). Nearly all relevant theoretical accounts (e.g. that leaders possess superior information on qual…

WP173. Pushed by the crowd or pulled by the leaders? Peer effects in Pay-What-You-Want

Literature on charitable giving often finds that seed money matters: the example of a wealthy donor is followed by others (List and Lucking-Riley, 2002). Nearly all relevant theoretical accounts (e.g. that leaders possess superior information on quality of the project) seem to apply to the closely related environment of Pay-What-You-Want mechanisms as well. Yet, as far as we can tell, no empirical study has tested for that until now. To fill this gap, we analyze data from 16 campaigns of BookRage (an equivalent of Humble Bundle, offering bundles of e-books). We make use of the fact that a fixed number of currently highest contributions are always displayed (along with mean contribution and total amount raised). Thus a discontinuity may be expected: contributions that are displayed might directly affect subsequent donors' behavior, in contrast to just slightly lower donations that are only observable as a (small) change in mean contribution. We find that the example of leaders makes no impact on willingness to purchase and amount paid. By contrast, the mean of past contributions has a positive impact on current contribution, yet a negative impact on the probability of contributing.


Krawczyk Michał, Kukla-Gryz Anna, Tyrowicz Joanna
voluntary contribution cultural goods PWYW

WP(23/2015)171. Friends or foes? A meta-analysis of the link between "online piracy'" and sales of cultural goods

Authors: Hardy Wojciech, Krawczyk Michał, Tyrowicz Joanna
Over the past decade or so, the literature has sprung in analyses of the impact the so-called online or digital "piracy'" has on sales. Since theory posits both positive and negative effects are possible, the question remains purely emp…

WP171. Friends or foes? A meta-analysis of the link between "online piracy'" and sales of cultural goods

Over the past decade or so, the literature has sprung in analyses of the impact the so-called online or digital "piracy'" has on sales. Since theory posits both positive and negative effects are possible, the question remains purely empirical. Consequently, there is a variety of published articles and working papers arguing in both ways, many of which attempt to account for the challenge of providing a reliable and causal effect. The objective of this survey is to review and discuss the accomplishments of the field so far. We also provide a tentative meta-analysis. Despite the multiplicity of measures and methods used we argue that the literature as a whole fails to reject the null hypothesis of no effects on sales.


Hardy Wojciech, Krawczyk Michał, Tyrowicz Joanna
digital piracy cultural goods meta analysis
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