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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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In intergroup contests a manager advises and motivates her group’s members. Her rewards often depend on the subsequent contest expenditure of the members. I test whether such incentives undermine the credibility and effectiveness of a manager’s efforts. In the different experimental...
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Recent experimental studies suggest that risk aversion is negatively related to cognitive ability. In this paper we … population for our experiment. By presenting subjects with choice tasks that vary the bias induced by random choices, we are able … to generate both negative and positive correlations between risk aversion and cognitive ability. Structural estimation …
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This paper tests the insiders' dilemma hypothesis in a laboratory experiment. The insiders' dilemma means that a … rather than exogenous merger theory. More surprisingly, our data suggests that fairness considerations also make profitable …
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particular the occurrence of bubble-crash pricing patterns. In each session, six subjects trade in three successive market rounds …
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We study risk taking on behalf of others, both with and without potential losses. A large-scale incentivized experiment … others are more risky. Using structural estimation, we show that this increase in risk stems from a decrease in loss aversion …
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redistribution. People earn money in a real effort experiment and can then decide how to distribute it among themselves and another …
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In Geng, Weiss, and Woff (2011), we pointed to the possibility that a voting mechanism may create or strengthen an entitlement effect in political-power holders relative to a random-appointment mechanism. This comment documents that such an effect, if it exists, is not robust.
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laboratory experiment we test whether lying aversion can explain this behavior by comparing honest and fake apologies. First, we …
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