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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - CESifo - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries— Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
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Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task
Gaechter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - CESifo - 2015
an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277184
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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - CESifo - 2015
In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210784
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Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - CESifo - 2009
We consider a voluntary contributions game, in which players may punish others after contributions are made and observed. The productivity of contributions, as captured in the marginal-per-capita return, differs among individuals, so that there are two types: high and low productivity. Every two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013941
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Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
Gaechter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - CESifo - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000384
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Asymmetric Obligations
Riedel, Nadine; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - CESifo - 2011
We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding … deterrent incentives. To implement such ‘expressive law’ we introduce different levels of very weakly incentivized, symmetric … and asymmetric minimum contribution levels (obligations) in a repeated public goods experiment. The results provide …
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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals
Mühlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - CESifo - 2014
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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The Tradeoff Between Redistribution and Effort: Evidence from the Field and from the Lab
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - CESifo - 2012
tend to have smaller incentives to engage in effort, the reverse does not hold true. Using a lab experiment, we show that …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877816
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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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