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Do Wealth Differences Affect Fairness Considerations?

Armantier, Olivier - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

The influence of relative wealth on fairness considerations is analyzed in an ultimatum game experiment in which … participants receive large and widely unequal initial endowments. Subjects initially demonstrate a concern for fairness. With time … however, behavior becomes at odds with both subgame perfection and fairness. Evidence of learning is detected for both …

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Competitive Private Supply of Public Goods / Provision privée des biens publics en compétition

Dragicevic, Arnaud; Meunier, Guy - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

This paper compares guilt alleviation and competition for social status in the private provision of a public good. When agents are intrinsically impulsed, that is, they mostly provide the public good in order to alleviate their guilt, they tend to free-ride. In contrast, when agents are...

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Dynamiques d'arbitrage entre écotaxe et permis d'émissions

Dragicevic, Arnaud - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011

This paper proposes three analyses of the tradeoff mechanism between ecotax and carbon credit. Our wish is to compare the ecotax level with the carbon credit price, subject to the minimization of the cost inherent to emissions. We redefine the calculus equations of the firm profit, in which we...

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Global Security Policies Against Terrorism and the Free Riding Problem: An Experimental Approach

Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David; Mirza, Daniel; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

The World Trade Center attack has shed light on the urgent need to implement preventing measures against terrorism and to enhance cooperation in the global security system for all countries. However, international coordination cannot be taken for granted. It is often ineffective and likely to...

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Competitive Insurance Markets and Adverse Selection in the Lab

Riahi, Dorra; Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

We provide an experimental analysis of competitive insurance markets with adverse selection. Our parameterized version of the lemons' model (Akerlof 1970) in the insurance context predicts total crowding out of low-risks when insurers offer a single full insurance contract. The therapy proposed...

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Private Valuation of a Public Good in Three Auction Mechanisms / Evaluation privée d'un bien public dans trois mécanismes d'enchères

Dragicevic, Arnaud; Ettinger, David - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

We evaluate the impact of three auction mechanisms the BeckerDeGrootMarschak (BDM) mechanism, the second-price auction, and the random nth-price auction in the measurement of private willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept for a pure public good. Our results show that the endowment effect...

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Willingness to Pay to Reduce Future Risk

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Héroux, Julie; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

We elicit subjects' willingness to pay to reduce future risk. In our experiments, subjects are given a cash endowment and a risky lottery. They report their willingness to pay to exchange the risky lottery for a safe one. Subjects play the lottery either immediately, eight weeks later, or...

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Learning-by-Doing in an Ambiguous Environment

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Laszlo, Sonia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

We experimentally test whether risk aversion or ambiguity aversion can explain decisions in a learning-by-doing game. We first measure subjects' preferences toward risk and ambiguity, and then use these measures to predict behavior in the game. We find that ambiguity averse subjects pay more...

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Training Without Certification: An Experimental Study

Marchand, Nadège; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2008

Our study considers the question of training in firms using an experimental laboratory approach. We investigate the following questions : What conditions, excluding external certification, will bring workers and employers to cooperate and share a rent generated by the workers' training? What...

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Can Corruption Be Studied in the Lab? Comparing a Field and a Lab Experiment

Armantier, Olivier; Boly, Amadou - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2008

This paper makes an attempt at testing the external validity of corruption experiments by moving from the lab in a developed country, to where it matters the most, the field in a developing country. In our experiment a candidate proposes a bribe to a grader in order to obtain a better grade. We...

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