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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - CESifo - 2014

between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …

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Charity Auctions for the Happy Few

Bos, Olivier - CESifo - 2008

Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …

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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2013

experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards … want to donate a share of their earnings to a charity of their choice. We find that, despite large differences in earnings … members of the two groups indicating that subjects in this experiment do not treat charitable giving as a normal good. …

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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013

Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...

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Growing Groups, Cooperation, and the Rate of Entry

Ranehill, Eva; Schneider, Frédéric; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2014

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory public-good game with voluntary contributions and economies of scale, we construct a situation in which expanding a group’s size yields potential efficiency gains, but only...

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Justice under Uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013

choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when …

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - CESifo - 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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More than Thirty Years of Ultimatum Bargaining Experiments: Motives, Variations, and a Survey of the Recent Literature

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G. - CESifo - 2013

subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we …

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Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior

Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - CESifo - 2013

We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic concerns, and find compelling evidence supporting this hypothesis in the behavior of participants who send and respond to others’ statements of confidence about how well they have...

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Self Control and Intertemporal Choice: Evidence from Glucose and Depletion Interventions

Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - CESifo - 2014

Recent developments in economic theory model intertemporal choice decisions as problems of restraining one’s natural impulse to consume today. We use interventions that have been shown in the psychology literature to affect impulse control to examine whether this is indeed the case for...

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