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Resource scarcity, spite and cooperation

Prediger, Sebastian; Vollan, Bjoern; Herrmann, Benedikt - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013

hence competitive pressure is higher. By contrast, levels of cooperation are very similar across areas. This indicates that … scarcity does not hamper cooperation, at least as long as a sub-survival level has not been reached. Our data further reveal a …

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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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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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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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Testing a forgotten aspect of Akerlof’s gift exchange hypothesis: Relational contracts with individual and uniform wages

Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012

Empirical work on Akerlof’s theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...

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Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams in experimental normal-form games

Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash strategy significantly more often, and their choices...

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Satisficing in sales competition: experimental evidence

Berninghaus, Siegfried; Werner G?th; Levati, M. Vittoria; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2009

In a duopoly market, aspiration levels express how much sellers want to earn given their expectations about the other?s behavior. We augment the sellers? decision task by eliciting their profit aspiration. In a first experimental phase, whenever satisficing is not possible, sales choices, point...

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The dos and don'ts of leadership in sequential public goods experiments

Rivas, Maria Fernanda; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2008

We study the effects of leadership in the provision of public goods by examining (i) the relative importance of reward and punishment as leadership devices, (ii) whether endogenous leadership is more efficient than exogenously enforced leadership, and (iii) whether leaders contributing last,...

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Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered

Luhan, Wolfgang; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2007

While most papers on team decision-making find that teams behave more selfishly, less trustingly and less altruistically than individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are more altruistic than individuals in a dictator game. Using a within-subjects design we re-examine group...

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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 …

find a large and positive effect of endogenous institutional choice on the level of cooperation in comparison to … exogenously implemented institutions. This suggests that participation rights enhance cooperation in groups. With endogenous … levels of cooperation. Our results are evaluated against the predictions of social preference models. …

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