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Organisational structure, communication and group ethics
Ellman, Matthew; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2007
consensus. Our 2-by-2 design also controls for communication effects. In our data, communication makes vertical firms more …
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Fair Procedures. Evidence from Games Involving Lotteries
Bolton, Gary E.; Brandts, Jordi; Ockenfels, Axel - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2000
Procedural fairness plays a prominent role in the social discourse concerning the marketplace in particular, and social institutions in general. Random procedures are a simple case, and they have found application in several important social allocation decisions. We investigate random procedures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572242
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How Universal is Behavior? A Four Country Comparison of Spite, Cooperation and Errors in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168485
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Let's talk: How communication affects contract design
Brandts, Jordi; Charness, Gary; Ellman, Matthew - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2012
shock and a discretionary buyer transfer. In the absence of communication, we find that rigid contracts are more frequent … and lead to higher earnings for both buyer and seller. By contrast, in the presence of communication, flexible contracts … considerably more from flexible with communication than rigid without communication. Our results show quite strongly that …
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Auctions for Government Securities: A Laboratory Comparison of Uniform, Discriminatory and Spanish Designs
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2002
The Bank of Spain uses a unique auction format to sell government bonds, which can be seen as a hybrid of a uniform and a discriminatory auction. For winning bids above the average winning bid, buyers are charged the average winning bid, otherwise they pay their respective bids. We report on an...
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Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems
Ehlers, Lars; Klaus, Bettina - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2003
We study a simple model of assigning indivisible objects (e.g., houses, jobs, offices, etc.) to agents. Each agent receives at most one object and monetary compensations are not possible. We completely describe all rules satisfying efficiency and resource-monotonicity. The characterized rules...
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Efficient Priority Rules
Ehlers, Lars; Klaus, Bettina - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2002
We study the assignment of indivisible objects with quotas (houses, jobs, or offices) to a set of agents (students, job applicants, or professors). Each agent receives at most one object and monetary compensations are not possible. We characterize efficient priority rules by efficiency,...
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A Note on the Separability Principle in Economies with Single-Peaked
Klaus, Bettina - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2004
We consider the problem of allocating an infinitely divisible commodity among a group of agents with single-peaked preferences. A rule that has played a central role in the analysis of the problem is the so-called uniform rule. Chun (2001) proves that the uniform rule is the only rule satisfying...
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Fair and Efficient Student Placement with Couples
Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2004
We study situations of allocating positions or jobs to students or workers based on priorities. An example is the assignment of medical students to hospital residencies on the basis of one or several entrance exams. For markets without couples, e.g., for ``undergraduate student placement,''...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005582634
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(When) Would I Lie To You? Comment on ?Deception: The Role of Consequences?
Hurkens, Sjaak; Kartik, Navin - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2006
This paper reconsiders the evidence on lying or deception presented in Gneezy (2005,American Economic Review). We argue that Gneezy?s data cannot reject the hip?esis that people are one of two kinds: either a person will never lie, or a person will lie whenever she prefers the outcome obtained...
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