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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan; Sutter, … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … prisoner's dilemma game with in-group as opposed to out-group members. They also use a costly punishment option to selectively … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes anti-social, harming cooperative …
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Choosing the carrot or the stick? ? Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations
Sutter, Matthias; Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für …
choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005232757
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Thar she bursts - Reducing confusion reduces bubbles
Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Juergen; Stoeckl, Thomas - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011
To explore why bubbles frequently emerge in the experimental asset market model of Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988), we vary the fundamental value process (constant or declining) and the cash-to-asset value-ratio (constant or increasing). We observe high mispricing in treatments with a...
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Experimental games on networks: Underpinnings of behavior and equilibrium selection
Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic complements, and participants have either complete or...
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Resource scarcity, spite and cooperation
Prediger, Sebastian; Vollan, Bjoern; Herrmann, Benedikt - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
Using an experimental approach, this paper examines how scarcity of natural resources affects people’s readiness to cooperate and to engage in antisocial behaviour. The experiments were carried out with pastoralists from southern Namibia whose livelihoods are highly dependent on grazing...
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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Distributional Preferences and Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011
We study experimentally the relationship between distributional preferences and competitive behavior. We find that spiteful subjects react strongest to competitive pressure and win in a tournament significantly more often than efficiency-minded and inequality averse subjects. However, when given...
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...
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No myopic loss aversion in adolescents? – An experimental note
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Zeileis, Achim - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
Myopic loss aversion (MLA) has been found to play a persistent role for investment behavior under risk. We study whether MLA is already present during adolescence. Quite surprisingly, we find no evidence of MLA in a sample of 755 adolescents. This finding is at odds with previous findings, and...
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Daniela R?tzler; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an ingroup or an out-group...
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