Replication data for: Anchoring Effects: Evidence from Art Auctions

Name: Replication data for: Anchoring Effects: Evidence from Art Auctions
Published: 2009-06-01
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Keywords: Derived/Compiled Data

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Alan Beggs; Kathryn Graddy

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Project Citation:

Beggs, Alan, and Graddy, Kathryn. Replication data for: Anchoring Effects: Evidence from Art Auctions. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113297V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper shows that the price of a painting sold at an art auction and the experts' pre-sale valuations are anchored on the price at which the painting previously sold at auction. We are able to separate anchoring from rational learning by using the identifying strategy that the unobservable component of quality for a particular painting remains constant between the last auction sale and the current auction sale. We interpret these results as anchoring on the part of the buyers, with the sellers and auctioneers either anticipating anchoring on the part of the buyers or exhibiting anchoring effects themselves. (JEL D44, Z11)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Derived/Compiled Data

JEL Classification:
D44 Auctions
Z11 Cultural Economics: Economics of the Arts and Literature

Geographic Coverage: International

Time Period(s): 1980 – 1994

Data Type(s): event/transaction data

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: painting sale,

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