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In this paper we characterize a situation in which non-calculative trust has to play a role in the decision to cooperate. We then analyse the given situation in game theoretical terms and distinguish those aspects of players’ decisions that are cooperative from those that may be interpreted as...
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consistent with the theoretical results: in the experiment, investment levels with and without legal protection are comparable …
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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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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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cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights … are reflected by the behavior of subjects in the laboratory and to what extent deviations from standard theory can be … agency theory is indeed useful to qualitatively predict how variations in the degree of uncertainty affect subjects' behavior …
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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direction, we have conducted a laboratory experiment with 490 participants. We consider "cooperative" investments that directly … benefit the non-investing party. While according to standard theory, contracting would be useless if renegotiation cannot be …
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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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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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