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Experimental analysis of successes and failures in prosocial and ethical behavior

Kandul, Serhiy - 2015

Pro-social and ethical behavior primarily understood as the ability to sacrifice ones own interest to the benefit of others leads to welfare improvements and social progress, whereas anti-social and unethical actions result in irrevocable welfare losses and destruction. This dissertation...

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Heterogeneous risks at auditing of trade accounts receivable and their default in payment within personal insolvency

Prömpers, Henning Rainer - 2017

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Incumbency Advantage in Non-Democracies

Egorov, Georgy; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

democracies. The incumbent can prevent credible challengers from running, organize vote fraud, or even physically eliminate the …

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On Doctors, Mechanics and Computer Specialists. Or Where are the Problems with Credence Goods?

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

yielding equilibria exhibiting various degrees of inefficiencies and fraud. The variety of results has fostered the impression …

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Booms, Busts, and Fraud

Povel, Paul; Singh, Rajdeep; Winton, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003

We examine firm managers' incentives to commit fraud in a model where firms seek funding from investors and investors … can monitor firms at a cost in order to get more precise information about firm prospects. We show that fraud incentives … funded without committing fraud, whereas in bad times investors are more vigilant and it is harder to commit fraud …

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Price Discrimination in Markets for Experts' Services

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the consequences of price discrimination in a market for experts’ services. In the case of experts markets, where the expert observes the intervention that a consumer needs to fix his problem and also provides a treatment, price discrimination proceeds along the dimension of...

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Optimal Audit Policy and Heterogenous Agents

Ratto, Marisa; Vergé, Thibaud - EconWPA - 2003

Frauds can be explained not only in terms of individual willingness to cheat, but may also be driven by opportunities to behave dishonestly. The audit policy should therefore be different for different categories of agents. This paper focuses on the optimal audit policy when there are two...

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Decision making in innovation and entrepreneurship : a collection of conjoint-based studies

Perry, Anja - 2010

Diese Arbeit mit dem Titel Decision Making in Innovation and Entrepreneurship A Collection of Conjoint-based Studies beschäftigt sich mit unterschiedlichen Themenbereichen der Kognition, Entscheidungsfindung und des Engagements im innovativen und unternehmerischen Umfeld. Die Conjoint-Analyse...

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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals

Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …

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Smiling is a Costly Signal of Cooperation Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from a Trust Game

Centorrino, Samuele; Djemai, Elodie; Hopfensitz, Astrid; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We test the hypothesis that "genuine" or "convincing" smiling is a costly signal that has evolved to induce cooperation in situations requiring mutual trust. Potential trustees in a trust game made video clips for viewing by potential trusters before the latter decided whether to send them...

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