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under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than … predicted. For all degrees of uncertainty, we find a coexistence of libertarianism and redistribution as well as incomplete …
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In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...
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their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. … choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when … some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although, under certainty almost all uninvolved participants distribute …
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predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …
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Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize that people will be able to coordinate on efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient...
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An extensive literature has studied ambiguity aversion in economic decision making, and how ambiguity aversion can account for empirically observed violations of expected utility-based theories. Almost all relevant applied models presume a general dislike of ambiguity. In this paper, we provide...
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of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
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Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can …
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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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subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we …
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