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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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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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Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights … agency theory is indeed useful to qualitatively predict how variations in the degree of uncertainty affect subjects' behavior … are reflected by the behavior of subjects in the laboratory and to what extent deviations from standard theory can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084433
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Cheap Talk with Multiple Audiences: an Experimental Analysis
Battaglini, Marco; Makarov, Uliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one …
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Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation
Hoppe, Eva I; Kusterer, David J; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
A government agency wants an infrastructure-based public service to be provided. Our experimental study compares two different modes of provision. In a public-private partnership, the two tasks of building the infrastructure and operating it are delegated to one private contractor (a...
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Myopic or Farsighted? An Experiment on Network Formation
Kirchsteiger, Georg; Mantovani, Marco; Mauleon, Ana; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
agents are farsighted, related stability concepts have been proposed. We design a simple network formation experiment to test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854524
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Rational parasites
Benoit, Jean-Pierre; Galbiati, Roberto; Henry, Emeric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
consistent with the theoretical results: in the experiment, investment levels with and without legal protection are comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083356
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...
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Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
A central insight of agency theory is that when a principal offers a contract to a privately informed agent, the … report about an experiment with 508 participants designed to test whether this fundamental trade-off is actually relevant. In … particular, we investigate settings with both exogenous and endogenous information structures. We find that theory is indeed a …
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