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Selfish-biased conditional cooperation: On the decline of contributions in repeated public goods experiments

Neugebauer, Tibor; Perote, Javier; Schmidt, Ulrich; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

repeated public good games. We present results of an experiment which allows to evaluate these hypotheses. The main …

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Tax competition and determination of the quality of public goods

Abdessalam, A. H. Ould; Kamwa, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

In this paper, the authors analyze the behavior of local governments on capital taxation when the financial choices in terms of a public good quality are done by a central planner. More specifically, they ask the question whether a local government has an interest to tax the mobile factor in...

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A Simple Note on Informational Cascades

Fiore, Annamaria; Morone, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Seminal models of herd behaviour and informational cascades point out existence of negative information externalities, and propose to ?destroy? information in order to achieve social improvements. Although in the last years many features of herd behaviour and informational cascades have been...

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Testing Independence Conditions in the Presence of Errors and Splitting Effects

Birnbaum, Michael H.; Schmidt, Ulrich; Schneider, Miriam D. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

models. We perform a repeated choice experiment and fit an error model that allows us to discriminate between true violations …

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Allais Paradoxes Can be Reversed by Presenting Choices in Canonical Split Form

Birnbaum, Michael H.; Schmidt, Ulrich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper tests Birnbaum’s (2004) theory that the constant consequence paradoxes of Allais are due to violations of coalescing, the assumption that when two branches lead to the same consequence, they can be combined by adding their probabilities. Rank dependent utility and cumulative...

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Experimental test of utility maximization

He, Yuqing - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

The study tests the cardinal utility maximization hypothesis by an experimental procedure in a framework of utility scaling approach following the psychophysical-econometric paradigm, conceived in He (Psychophysical Interpretation for Utility Measures, 2011). It reveals (i) the utility...

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Gender Differences in Risk Preferences and Stereotypes: Experimental Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patrilineal Society

Pondorfer, Andreas; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rehdanz, Katrin; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences …

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Setting the Bar - An Experimental Investigation of Immigration Requirements

Khadjavi, Menusch; Tjaden, Jasper D. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

focuses on context-specific empirical studies. We use a public good game experiment with endogenous groups to investigate how …

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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the …

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Science and ideology in economic, political and social thought

Hillinger, Claude - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using natural science methods in economics was met with little … understanding and often considerable hostility. I found economics to be driven less by common sense and empirical evidence, than by … ideology. I feel that the scientific work that I have done on specific, long standing and fundamental problems in economics and …

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