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At the Mercy of the Prisoner Next Door. Using an Experimental Measure of Selfishness as a Criminological Tool
Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus; … - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
that reduce the degree of selfishness of their inmates? Using a tried and tested tool from experimental economics, we cast … calls for more refined versions of utility in rational choice theories of crime. Prisoners do not give less than average … improve their marks over time. This suggests that this correctional intervention also reduces selfishness. …
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Words Substitute Fists – Justifying Punishment in a Public Good Experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013
Punishees regularly ask for justification. But is justification also effective? To answer this question under controlled conditions, we have conducted a public goods experiment with central punishment. The authority is neutral – she does not benefit from contributions to the public good....
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On Probation. An Experimental Analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2009
Does probation pay a double dividend? Society saves the cost of incarceration, and convicts preserve their liberty. But does probation also reduce the risk of recidivism? In a meta-study we show that the field evidence is inconclusive. Moreover it struggles with an identification problem: those...
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The Coevolution of Behavior and Normative Expectations. Customary Law in the Lab
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011
Customary law has been criticized from very different angles. Rational choice theorists claim that what looks like custom is nothing but self-interest. Positivists doubt that anything beyond consent assumes the force of law. In this paper, we adopt an experimental approach to test these claims....
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Cui Bono, Benefit Corporation? An Experiment Inspired by Social Enterprise Legislation in Germany and the US
Fischer, Sven; Goerg, Sebastian; Hamann, Hanjo - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013
How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...
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Higher Order Risk Attitudes, Demographics, and Financial Decisions
Noussair, Charles; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Kuilen, Gijs van de - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
We conduct an experiment to study the prevalence of the higher order risk attitudes of prudence and temperance, in a large demographically representative sample, as well as in a sample of undergraduate students. Participants make pairwise choices between lotteries of the form proposed by...
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Oligopoly as a Socially Embedded Dilemma. An Experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011
From the perspective of competitors, competition may be modeled as a prisoner’s dilemma. Setting the monopoly price is cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit is highest if only the competitor(s) is...
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Give Everybody a Voice! The Power of Voting in a Public Goods Experiment with Externalities
Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2014
We study the effect of voting when insiders’ public goods provision may affect passive outsiders. Without voting insiders’ contributions do not differ, regardless of whether outsiders are positively or negatively affected or even unaffected. Voting on the recommended contribution level...
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An Experimental Contribution to the Theory of Customary (International) Law
Engel, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
In their majority, public international lawyers postulate that for a new rule of customary law to originate, two conditions must be fulfilled: there must be consistent practice, and it must be shown that this practice is motivated by the belief that such behaviour is required in law. Maurice...
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Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination
Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...
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