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Tax Evasion and State Productivity - an Experimental Study
Güth, Werner; Sutter, Matthias; Straub, Sabine - 2005
In an overlapping generations experiment with multiple families participants can support their parents directly and thereby reduce their tax burden or rely on tax-financed old-age support. State productivity is captured by the factor with which total tax revenues are multiplied to determine...
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Are Family Transfers Crowded Out by Public Transfers?
Güth, Werner; Offerman, Theo; Potters, Johannes (Jan) J. M. - 2003
emphasis on support instead of grants: Grants are crowded out, but support is not significantly affected. The efficiency of …
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A psychological approach to individual differences in intertemporal consumption patterns
Brandstätter, Hermann; Güth, Werner - 1998
When people decide about saving and consumption across the various periods of their life time they take into account their life expectancy when comparing present and future needs and resources for satisfying them. The experimental design, applied at two sites (Humboldt-University at Berlin and...
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Illusion of expertise in portfolio decisions : an experimental approach
Fellner, Gerlinde; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001
Overall, 72 subjects invest their endowment in four risky assets. Each com-bination of assets yields the same expected return and variance of returns. Illusion of expertise prevails when one prefers nevertheless the self-selected portfolio. After being randomly assigned to groups of four...
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Equity versus efficiency? : Evidence from three-person generosity experiments
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; … - 2010
participants seem to care more for efficiency than for equity. In three-person generosity games equal agreement payoffs for two of … - efficiency seeking. Our treatments rely on a 2x3 factorial design differing in whether the responder or the third (dummy) player … exogenously given agreement payoff. -- generosity game ; equity ; efficiency ; experiment …
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Whom to blame? : an experiment of collective harming and punishing
Güth, Werner; Otsubo, Hironori - 2011
economics ; Equality vs. efficiency ; Equilibrium selection ; Laboratory experiments …
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Is regulation by milestones efficiency enhancing? : an experimental study of environmental protection
Freytag, Andreas; Güth, Werner; Koppel, Hannes; … - 2010
Viewing individual contributions as investments in emission reduction we rely on the familiar linear public goods-game to set global reduction targets which, if missed, imply that all payoffs are destroyed with a certain probability. Regulation by milestones does not only impose a final...
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Does entitlement crowd out efficiency or equality seeking? : selling the roles in generosity game experiments
Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - 2010
proposer's choice of the "pie" size. This has been shown to induce pie choices which are either efficiency or equality seeking … bias of competitive auctions. We find that entitlement crowds out equality seeking and strengthens efficiency seeking … ; Game ; Efficiency Seeking ; Inequity Aversion ; Satisficing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758824
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Fairness versus efficiency : an experimental study of (mutual) gift giving
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Ockenfels, Axel - 2000
Fairness is a strong concern as shown by the robust results of dictator giving and ultimatum experiments. Efficiency … provision games. In our experiment participants can increase efficiency by gift giving at the cost of reducing their own … for mutual gift giving. In both cases decisions can be conditioned on whether there is or there is not an efficiency gain …
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Essays on economic psychology
Brandstätter, Hermann (ed.); Güth, Werner (ed.) - 1994
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