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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948842
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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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Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - CESifo - 2009
a punishment regime, in which certain individuals are permitted, but not required, to have punishment directed toward … them. The punishment system can condition on type and contribution history. The results indicate that the most effective … regime, in terms of contributions and earnings, is one that allows punishment of low contributors only, regardless of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013941
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Bargaining with a Residual Claimant: An Experimental Study
Embrey, Matthew; Hyndman, Kyle; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2014
rather than a risk-less pie. Contrary to theory, the comparatively less risk adverse residual claimants benefit the most …
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Spillover Effects of Minimum Wages: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - CESifo - 2011
We study the spillover effects of minimum wages in a laboratory experiment. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining …
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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014
We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona]Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are first]year...
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An Experimental AK Model of Growth
Ponzano, Ferruccio; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2012
In this paper we test the AK model of growth with laboratory experiments. In each period, agents produce and trade output in a market, and allocate it to consumption and investment. The economy should experience a constant and positive rate of growth. We analyze two treatments differing from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651181
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Are Groups more Rational than Individuals? A Review of Interactive Decision Making in Groups
Kugler, Tamar; Kausel, Edgar E.; Kocher, Martin G. - CESifo - 2012
Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic...
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Peer Effects in Risk Taking
Lahno, Amrei M.; Serra-Garcia, Marta - CESifo - 2012
We examine peer effects in risk taking with complete information and compare explanations for peer effects based on relative payoff concerns to explanations that allow peer choices to matter. We vary experimentally whether individuals can condition a simple lottery choice on the lottery choice,...
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