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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties
Ridderinkhof, Richard; Stallen, Mirre; Winden, Frans … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties and discusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affective weight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual (‘utility interdependence’)....
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A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
There is strong evidence that people exploit their bargaining power in competitive markets but not in bilateral bargaining situations. There is also strong evidence that people exploit free-riding opportunities in voluntary cooperation games. Yet, when they are given the opportunity to punish...
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A Theory of Reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …
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Appropriating the Commons - A Theoretical Explanation
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In this Paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...
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Rotten Kids with Bad Intentions
Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
player has higher material payoffs, so that reciprocity does not increase equity: For sufficiently strong reciprocity …
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Reference Points and Effort Provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence From a Field Experiment
Falk, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for … charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters … this Paper is twofold: first, it shows that reciprocity is an important motive for charitable giving, in addition to the …
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Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game
Baran, Nicole M.; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts …
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Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China
Padró i Miquel, Gerard; Qian, Nancy; Xu, Yiqing; Yao, Yang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of electoral reforms in Chinese villages. We use the...
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