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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
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In experiments with two-person sequential games we analyze whether responses to favorable and unfavorable actions …
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reactions to a certain benchmark oucome are influenced by changes in the payoffs of another outcome of the game, not attainable …
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generally the same in both treatments, in line with rule-based social preference models, like procedural fairness. …
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fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role … behavior depending on their fairness perceptions, their experienced emotions, and their interaction with responders. We find … that fairness plays an important role in the behavior of proposers. Specifically, deviations from a perceived fairness norm …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby … inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature. These …
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This paper studies whether it is possible to characterize an optimal, time-consistent tariff to protect an infant-industry in the presence of learning effects. A domestic monopolist decides how much to produce, taking into account learning effects induced by its current production, while the...
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experience in the laboratory. Although strategically our games are very similar to previous experiments in which game theory …
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We examine an experimental gift exchange game in which the players can improve upon the unique no-gifts equilibrium through cooperative gift giving. The main feature of the study is that there are two different types of gift exchange, which we call simple and complex exchange, respectively....
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We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...
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