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outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …
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behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to …
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knowledge. To assess the effect of information asymmetries on prosocial behavior, we conduct a laboratory experiment with a … a consequence and the main finding of our experiment, uninformed dictators behave more prosocially than informed …
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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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exogenous values of adverse selection under Consent Law, and the repeated interactions experiment devised has not resulted in …
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Fiscal restraints have been argued to force today’s governments to internalize the externalities that result from extensive borrowing on future electorates and governments as well as on other countries by causing fiscal instability. In this article we provide an alternative argument for fiscal...
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An auction is externality-robust if unilateral deviations from equilibrium leave the other bidders’ payoffs unaffected. The equilibrium and its outcome will then persist if certain types of externalities arise between bidders. One example are externalities due to spiteful preferences, which...
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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third … party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without … incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly influence the recipient’s behavior in favor of the gift giver, in …
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an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
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We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker …
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