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We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral …
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telling a lie or misrepresenting information. In this paper I use a cheap-talk sender-receiver experiment to show that telling …
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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the …
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In markets where transactions are governed by contractual incompleteness, revealed intentions to evade taxes may affect market performance. We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from...
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as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
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We analyze an experimental public goods game in which group members can endogenously determine whether they want to supplement a standard voluntary contribution mechanism with the possibility of rewarding or punishing other group members. We find a large and positive effect of endogenous...
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belief about the own rank in a real effort task, and subjects' risk preferences. In this paper I am able to replicate these …
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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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-shot public goods experiment and the joy-of-destruction experiment with pastoralists from both areas. Results from the joy …-of-destruction experiment reveal that a substantial fraction of people is willing to reduce another subject’s income, although this comes at an … gains can be realized, but turn to spiteful money burners when there is no scope for efficiency improvements and the risk of …
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This paper challenges recent results on the fragility of the value of commitment. It introduces a specific notion of the ’value of information’ for a later-moving player about the action choice of a previously-moving player, gives conditions under which this value is positive and shows that...
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