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How Universal is Behavior? A Four Country Comparison of Spite and Cooperation in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
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Let's Talk: How Communication Affects Contract Design
Brandts, Jordi; Charness, Gary; Ellman, Matthew - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
shock and a discretionary buyer transfer. In the absence of communication, we find that rigid contracts are more frequent … and lead to higher earnings for both buyer and seller. By contrast, in the presence of communication, flexible contracts … considerably more from flexible with communication than rigid without communication. Our results show quite strongly that …
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Are Self-regarding Subjects More Rational?
Arruñada, Benito; Casari, Marco; Pancotto, Francesca - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Through an experiment, we investigate how the level of rationality relates to concerns for equality and efficiency. Subjects perform dictator games and a guessing game. More rational subjects are not more frequently of the self-regarding type. When performing a comparison within the same degree...
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Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation
Ehlers, Lars; Klaus, Bettina - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
We study a simple model of assigning indivisible objects (e.g., houses, jobs, offices, etc.) to agents. Each agent receives at most one object and monetary compensations are not possible. We completely describe all rules satisfying efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and...
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Fair and Efficient Student Placement with Couples
Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
We study situations of allocating positions to students based on priorities. An example is the assignment of medical students to hospital residencies on the basis of entrance exams. For markets without couples, e.g., for undergraduate student placement, acyclicity is a necessary and sufficient...
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Farsighted House Allocation
Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip; Walzl, Markus - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
In this note we study von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable sets for Shapley and Scarf (1974) housing markets. Kawasaki (2008) shows that the set of competitive allocations coincides with the unique von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set based on a farsighted version of antisymmetric weak...
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Efficient Priority Rules
Ehlers, Lars; Klaus, Bettina - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
We study the assignment of indivisible objects with quotas (universities, jobs, or offices) to a set of agents (students, job applicants, or professors). Each agent receives at most one object and monetary compensations are not possible. We characterize efficient priority rules by efficiency,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547388
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One Person in the Battlefield is not a warrior: Self-Construal, Perceived Ability to Make a Difference, and Socially Responsible Behavior
Cojuharenco, Irina; Cornelissen, Gert; Karelaia, Natalia - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
We suggest that cultivating an individual‟s connectedness to others promotes socially responsible behavior both directly and indirectly through increased perceived ability to make a difference. Individuals whose interdependent self is more prominent feel they have more of an impact on larger...
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Relative Position, Prices of Sacrifice and Reciprocity: An Experimental Study Using Individual Decisions
Brandts, Jordi; Fatás, Enrique; Lagos, Francisco - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005
We use experimental data to obtain a detailed description of individuals' pro-sociality. Participants are faced with a large number of decisions involving variations in the tradeoffs between own and others' payoffs, as well as in other potentially important factors like individuals' positions...
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Leadership and Overcoming Coordination Failure with Asymmetric Costs
Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J.; Fatas, Enrique - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2006
We study how the heterogeneity of agents affects the extent to which changes in financial incentives can pull a group out of a situation of coordination failure. We focus on the connections between cost asymmetries and leadership. Experimental subjects interact in groups of four in a series of...
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