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Essays in behavioural economics
Seithe, Mirko - 2011
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Biases in beliefs : experimental evidence
Bauer, Dominik; Wolff, Irenaeus - 2019 - This version: 20th February, 2019
Many papers have reported behavioral biases in belief formation that come on top of standard game-theoretic reasoning. We show that the processes involved depend on the way participants reason about their beliefs. When they think about what everybody else or another "unspeci fied" individual is...
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Determinants of human cooperation : about the influence of moral balancing, group identity, competition, consumer information & expert qualification
Schneider, Tim Arne - 2017
The present book adds to the broad field of investigations concerning what affects and determines human cooperation. It …
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Essays on prosocial and competitive behavior
Schier, Uta Katharina - 2018
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Is voting for a cartel a sign of cooperativeness?
Gillet, Joris - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-10
This paper tests the hypothesis that a (partial) reason why cartels - collective but costly and non-binding price agreements - lead to higher prices in a Bertrand oligopoly could be because of a selection effect: decision-makers who are willing to form price agreements are more likely to be less...
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Do economists punish less?
Kaiser, Jonas Pilgaard; Pedersen, Kasper Selmar; Koch, … - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/75, pp. 1-17
A number of studies discuss whether and how economists differ from other disciplines in the amount that they contribute to public goods. We view this debate as incomplete because it neglects the willingness to sanction non-cooperative behavior, which is crucial for maintaining social order and...
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Lab-sophistication : does repeated participation in laboratory experiments affect pro-social hehaviour?
Medda, Tiziana; Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommasso - 2021
Experimental social scientists working at research-intensive institutions deal inevitably with subjects who have most likely participated in previous experiments. It is an important methodological question to know whether participants that have acquired a high level of lab-sophistication show...
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Measuring Image Concern
Henry, Emeric - 2017
It is now well documented that individuals tend to change their behavior when their actions are observed by others. Yet there is no systematic way of measuring this dimension of preferences at the individual level. In this paper, we propose a novel experimental game to measure individual...
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Cooperating, fast and slow : testing the social heuristics hypothesis
Strømland, Eirik; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2016
Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper …, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find … finding that fast and intuitive decision making promotes cooperation. Given payoff comprehension, the SHH predicts behavior …
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Nudging cooperation
Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - 2018
post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …
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