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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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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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Network Structure and Strategic Investments: An Experimental Analysis
Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136539
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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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Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee under Endogenous Supervision
Dittrich, Dennis; Kocher, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within … on the reciprocity of employees. …
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067556
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666531
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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
interaction, in contrast with a trait like altruism. Moreover, a tie is not related to strategic behavior such as reputation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666453
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365004
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Loss Aversion and Consumption Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Karle, Heiko; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Peitz, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
points. The implications of this model are tested in an experiment in which participants have to make a consumption choice …
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