Search Results - subject:"Joy"

The joy of ruling : an experimental investigation on collective giving

Fatas, Enrique; Morales, Antonio J. - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 85 (2018) 2, pp. 179-200

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Heterogeneity in Rent-Seeking Contests with Multiple Stages: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - 2013

This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants' investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost...

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Heterogeneity in rent-seeking contests with multiple stages: Theory and experimental evidence

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397145

Heterogeneity in rent-seeking contests with multiple stages : theory and experimental evidence

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194825

Heterogeneity in rent-seeking contests with multiple stages : theory and experimental evidence

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - 2013

This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants ́investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199750

Heterogeneity in Rent-Seeking Contests with Multiple Stages: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013

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On the Interpretation of Giving, Taking, and Destruction in Dictator Games and Joy-of-Destruction Games.

Zhang, Le; Ortmann, Andreas - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2013

The literature on dictator [D] and joy-of-destruction [JoD] games demonstrates that people can be nice and nasty. We …

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Heterogeneity in Rent-Seeking Contests with Multiple Stages: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants’ investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701084

Joy leads to Overconfidence â€“ and a Simple Remedy

Koellinger, Ph.D.; Michl, T. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2012

This study examines the influence of joy on absolute and relative overconfidence in a decision experiment with monetary … that self-reported joy increased overconfidence in the control group, whereas the participants in the treatment group had …

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The Desire to Influence Others

Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Schröder, Marina - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2012

We introduce the give-or-destroy game that allows us to fully elicit an individual's social preference schedule. We find that about one third of the population exhibits both pro-social and anti-social preferences that are independent of payoff comparisons with those who are affected. We call...

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