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Do voluntary payments to advisors improve the quality of financial advice? An experimental sender-receiver game
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The market for retail financial products (e.g. investment funds or insurances) is marred by information asymmetries. Clients are not well informed about the quality of these products. They have to rely on the recommendations of advisors. Incentives of advisors and clients may not be aligned,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539175
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Moral Emotions and Partnership
Bracht, Jürgen; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Actual behaviour is influenced in important ways by moral emotions, for instance guilt or shame (see, among others, Tangney et al., 2007). Belief-dependant models of social preferences using the framework of psychological games aim to consider such emotions to explain other-regarding behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144133
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Other-regarding behaviour: Testing guilt- and reciprocity-based models
Regner, Tobias; Harth, Nicole S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyse two types of belief-dependant models of social preferences: guilt aversion and reciprocity. In particular …, we test the relevance of their input variables (second-order beliefs and general dispositions for guilt/reciprocity). The … data confirm the predictions of belief-dependant models. Both second-order beliefs and a participant's sensitivity to guilt/reciprocity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671387
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More than outcomes: A cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Recent research has cast some doubt on the general validity of outcome-based models of social preferences. We develop a model based on cognitive dissonance that focuses on the importance of self-image. An experiment (a dictator game variant) tests the model. First, we find that subjects whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009023790
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Charitable Giving Among Females and Males: An Empirical Test of the Competitive Altruism Hypothesis
Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they...
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Self-Image and Moral Balancing - An Experimental Analysis
Ploner, Matteo.; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In our experiment, a dictator game variant, the reported outcome of a die roll determines the endowment (low/high) in a subsequent dictator game. In one treatment the experimenter is present and no cheating is possible, while in another subjects can enter the result of the roll themselves. Moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884476
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Why Consumers Pay Voluntarily: Evidence from Online Music
Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
more than necessary. We control for individual response- as well as sample selection-bias and find that reciprocity appears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751289
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the work place - Experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant, CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. We are testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144129
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Do I really want to know? A cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We investigate to what extent genuine social preferences can explain observed other-regarding behavior. In a dictator game variant subjects can choose whether to learn about the consequences of their choice for the receiver. We find that a majority of subjects showing other-regarding behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691688
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Determinants of In-group Bias: Group Affiliation or Guilt-aversion?
Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In-group favoritism in social dilemma situations is one of the main findings of studies in Social Identity Theory. We investigate what causes the in-group bias: is it due to mere group affiliation or, alternatively, is guilt-aversion a possible explanation? We induce group membership in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090588