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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment … experiment we record agents' heart rate variability. Our findings provide evidence of a link between perceived unfairness and … health, and fairness of pay. …
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among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm, that even if fairness … incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns … concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and …
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's dilemma game without communication. In an experiment on a voluntary participation game with a non-excludable public good that …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
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This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors … that guilt aversion plays a role. …
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strength. We then present three experiments that study main predictions and implications of the model. The first is a simple … principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …
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It is well known that communication often serves as a facilitator for cooperation in static games. Yet, communication can serve entirely different purposes in dynamic settings as communication during the game may work as a means for renegotiation, potentially undermining the credibility of...
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fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …
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We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge of the game structure and feedback about choices in the previous period, we run treatments (i) without feedback about previous play, (ii) with no information about the...
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In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects with a shared identity, priming subjects with an identity distinct from those with whom they will...
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