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cooperators relieve negative emotions when they punish free riders. In response, the free-riders experience negative emotions when …
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investigate the relationships between emotions, deception, and rational decision-making by means of an experiment on tax evasion …. Emotions are measured by skin conductance responses and self-reports. We show that the intensity of anticipated and … anticipatory emotions before reporting positively correlates with both the decision to cheat and the proportion of evaded income …
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puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions as a possible explanation of tax compliance. Our laboratory … experiment shows that emotional arousal, measured by Skin Conductance Responses, increases in the proportion of evaded taxes. The … perspective of punishment after an audit, especially when the pictures of the evaders are publicly displayed, also raises emotions …
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We model the interaction between an employer and a worker with interdependent preferences in a simple one-shot production process. In particular, we assume that the worker becomes kinder if she senses that her employer is an altruist. We assume that intentions are private information. Thus, the...
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We study the impact of information manipulation by a principal on the agent's effort. In a context of asymmetric information at the principal's advantage, we test experimentally the principal's willingness to bias (overestimate or under-estimate) the information she gives to her agent on his...
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This paper uses experimental data to examine the existence of a teaching strategy among bounded rational players. If players realize that their own actions modify their opponent's beliefs and actions, they might play certain actions to this specific end ; and forego immediate payoffs if the...
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encourage this intrinsic motivation by an adequately designed contract. Although equally productive, assuming that agents from …
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In this paper, we consider that our experience of time (to come) depends on the emotions we feel when we imagine future … pleasant or unpleasant events. A positive emotion such as relief or joy associated with a pleasant event that will happen in … expands. A negative emotion such as grief or frustration associatedwith an unpleasant event thatwill happen in the future …
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This paper demonstrates, through a controlled experiment, that the “Laffer curve” phenomenon does not always reflect a … conventional income - leisure trade-off. Whether out of reason or out of emotion, taxpayers may also be willing to punish … experiment in which a player A (the "tax receiver") is matched with a player B (the "worker") to elicit the conditions under …
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Neuroeconomics is a recent extension of behavioral economics which aims at uncovering the brain mechanisms and activities that mediate regular and anomalous behaviour. Gul and Pesendorfer (2005) have launched a critique against the neuroeconomic research program, based on what they argue is the...
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