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Social Communication and Discrimination: A Video Experiment

Greiner, Ben; Güth, Werner; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We report on an experiment using video technology to manipulate pre-play communication protocols in the lab and to … study purely social effects of communication on donations and discrimination between potential receivers. The experimental … the latter decides on her gifts. Through the use of three communication setups (none, audio, and audio-visual) we show and …

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Revolutionary Ideas for Radio Regulation

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

constitutional law. Historical experience and centuries of conversation about fundamental political choices has created knowledge …

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Voting on a sharing norm in a dictator game

Vanberg, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a non- binding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a dictator game. In a baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a voting treatment, subjects are ï¬rst placed behind a 'veil of ignorance' and vote on...

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Communication of Research on Forecasting: The Journal

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

communicate research findings. In particular, the IIF tries to foster communication among researchers, between researchers and …

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A New Account of Personalization and Effective Communication

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

communication across a large population. The observed preference for personalization over the past two centuries and the importance … of action and personal relationships to effective communication are aspects of information economies that are likely to …

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Third Party Assessments in Trust Problems with Conflict of Interest: An Experiment on the Effects of Promises

Kataria, Mitesh; Winter, Fabian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Is it possible to elicit reliable assessment from an assessor with conflict of interest (e.g. a professor that writes a recommendation letter for a formal PhD student)? We propose an experimental test and show that compared to a not-incentivized assessment, a promise to give a truthful...

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Mediocrity and Induced Reciprocity

Montinari, Natalia; Nicolò, Antonio; Oexl, Regine - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We report evidence from an experiment where a principal chooses an agent out of two to perform a task for a fixed compensation. The principal's payoff depends on the agent's ex-ante ability and on a non-contractible effort that the agent has to exert once employed. We find that a significant...

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False Modesty

Harbaugh, Rick; To, Dr. Theodore - EconWPA - 2005

Is it always wise to disclose good news? When both the sender and the receiver have private information about the sender's quality, we find that the worst sender type with good news has the most incentive to disclose it, so reporting good news can paradoxically make the sender look bad. If the...

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Coordination Games with Quantum Information

Kargin, Vladislav - EconWPA - 2004

The paper discusses coordination games with remote players that have access to an entangled quantum state. It shows that the entangled state cannot be used by players for communicating information, but that in certain games it can be used for improving coordination of actions. A necessary...

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Incentives for Developing and Communicating Principles: A Reply

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

The commentators raised many interesting ideas in response to Armstrong and Pagell (2003), from which one general theme emerges: The commentators claim that management science lacks the incentives to encourage efforts to develop and communicate grounded principles. As a result, academics often...

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