Search Results - subject:"Other regarding preferences"

Optimistic expectations or other-regarding preferences? Analysing the determinants of trust among association members

Degli Antoni, Giacomo; Grimalda, Gianluca - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2013

We investigate the effect of beliefs and preferences on trust and trustworthiness in the first experiment involving a stratified sample of association members and a demographically comparable sample of non-members. We show that: (1) Neither expectations on others’ behaviour nor risk aversion...

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When Focal Points are Out of Focus: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Come Dine with Me

Schüller, David; Upmann, Thorsten - CESifo - 2013

We interpret the TV-show Come Dine with Me as a simultaneous non-cooperative game with evaluation levels as strategic variables, and show that it belongs to a class of strategic games which we label mutual evaluations games (MEG). Any MEG possesses a ‘zero equilibrium’—i. e. a Nash...

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Measuring trust, reciprocity and altruism by counterfactuals

Giovanni, Di Bartolomeo; Stefano, Papa - Department of Communication, University of Teramo - 2013

Our paper aims to investigate conditional and unconditional motivations in investment games by using a counterfactual methodology and attitudinal survey and self-reported information about participants’ behavior. We have combined different methodologies to verify the coherence between...

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Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Biased Beliefs and Distributional Other-Regarding Preferences

Aksoy, Ozan; Weesie, Jeroen - In: Games 4 (2013) 1, pp. 66-88

and her own other-regarding preferences, using an<em> “avant-garde”</em> hierarchical Bayesian method. We estimate two …

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Other-regarding Preferences, Group Identity and Political Participation: An Experiment

Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We experimentally study the relationship between other-regarding preferences, group identity and political …

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Parental background and other-regarding preferences in children

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebická, Barbara - 2012

Other-regarding preferences are important for establishing and maintaining cooperative outcomes. In this paper, we … study how formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is affected by parental background. Our subjects, aged 4 … invested in instilling other-regarding preferences into children, making them less likely to acquire cooperative types of …

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Responsibility effects in decision making under risk

Pahlke, Julius; Strasser, Sebastian; Vieider, Ferdinand M. - 2012

We explore situations in which a decision-maker bears responsibility for somebody else's outcomes as well as for her own. For gains we confirm the intuition that being responsible for somebody else's payoffs increases risk aversion, while in the loss domain we find increased risk seeking. In a...

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Credence goods markets, distributional preferences and the role of institutions

Erharter, Dominik - 2012

We study credence goods markets where an expert not only cares for her own monetary payoff, but also for the monetary payoff of her customer. We show how an expert with heterogeneous distributional preferences responds to monetary incentives in the absence of institutions, under liability and/or...

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The good, the bad and the naive: Do fair prices signal good types or do they induce good behaviour?

Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2012

Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...

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How much do others matter? Explaining positional concerns for different goods and personal characteristics

Hillesheim, Inga; Mechtel, Mario - 2012

We test concerns for relative standing with respect to private consumption, income, leisure, savings, and personal characteristics, using data from a classroom survey. Our results show highest degrees of positionality for personal characteristics and income. In order to explain positionality, we...

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