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Long-term work contracts versus sequential spot markets : experimental evidence on firm-specific investment

Anderhub, Vital; Königstein, Manfred; Kübler, Dorothea - 1999

administered incentives. -- principal agent ; experiment ; specific human capital …

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Learning to bid : an experimental study of bid function adjustments in auctions and fair division games

Güth, Werner; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Königstein, … - 1999

sequencing structure of game types, game rules do matter, and directional learning theory offers a partial explanation for bid …

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Auctions and fair division games under different price rules : individual bid functions, prices and efficiency rates

Güth, Werner; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Königstein, … - 1999

bidders. In our experiment participants face four auction types (first versus second price - auction versus fair division game …

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Trust and reciprocity in the investment game with indirect reward

Güth, Werner; Königstein, Manfred; Marchand, Nadège; … - 2000

Experimental studies have shown that trust and reciprocity are effective in increasing efficiency when complete contracting is infeasible. One example is the study by Berg et al. (1995) of the investment game. In this game the person who receives the investment is the one who may reward the...

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A comparison of punishment rules in repeated public good games : an experimental study

Decker, Torsten; Stiehler, Andreas; Strobel, Martin - 2002

by the collective rule is essential for the degree of support by the participants. -- cooperation ; experiment ; public …

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E-privacy : evaluating a new search cost in online environments

Annacker, Dirk; Spiekermann, Sarah; Strobel, Martin - 2001

Electronic Commerce environments increasingly witness a conflict on the subject of e-privacy: While marketers want to maximize their customer knowledge and grasp the identity of their online users, consumers often want to stay anonymous and not reveal private information. The conflict suggests...

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The false consensus effect disappears if representative information and monetary incentives are given

Engelmann, Dirk; Strobel, Martin - 1999

In this paper we present an experiment on the false consensus effect. Unlike previous experiments, we provide monetary …

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An experimental comparison of the fairness models by Bolton and Ockenfels and by Fehr and Schmidt

Engelmann, Dirk; Strobel, Martin - 2000

In this note we present an experiment to compare the two competing fairness theories by Bolton / Ockenfels and Fehr … difficult to compare their predictive accuracy. We designed a very simple experiment that induces opposing predictions made by …

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Combining rational choice and evolutionary dynamics : the indirect evolutionary approach

Königstein, Manfred; Müller, Wieland - 1999

that are well known from game theory and evolutionary game theory to solve these games. For illustration we include two …

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Efficient contracting and fair play in a simple principal-agent experiment

Anderhub, Vital; Gächter, Simon; Königstein, Manfred - 1999

observed in the experiment aim at fair surplus sharing. -- principal-agent theory ; contract theory ; fair sharing ; incentive …Modern 'principal-agent theory' has made a lot of progress in proposing theoretical Solutions to agency problems. This … evidence on offered contracts and effort choices in a simple agency game. In line with principal-agent theory we find that in …

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