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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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Justice under Uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013
An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877816
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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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Cheating and Loss Aversion: Do People Lie More to Avoid a Loss?
Grolleau, Gilles; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutan, Angela - CESifo - 2014
Does the extent of cheating depend on a proper reference point? We use a real effort task that implements a two (gain versus loss frame) times two (monitored performance versus unmonitored performance) between-subjects design to examine whether cheating is reference-dependent. Our experimental...
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Generosity Across Contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - CESifo - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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Contracts, Biases and Consumption of Access Services
Leider, Stephen G.; Sahin, Özge - CESifo - 2012
We consider a consumption model that takes into account the valuation and demand uncertainties that consumers face while using access services. Typical examples of such services include telecommunication services, extended warranties for consumer electronics, and club memberships. We demonstrate...
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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - CESifo - 2013
predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010639421
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Measuring Time and Risk Preferences: Realiability, Stability, Domain Specificity
Wölbert, Eva; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013
To accurately predict behavior economists need reliable measures of individual time preferences and attitudes toward risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681226
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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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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions. What can we Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2010
maximin rule, but rather favor a utilitarian justice concept appended with a safety net for the poorest. Furthermore, people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498990