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A Tool for Electronic Instructions in Laboratory Experiments

Schmelz, Katrin - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011

E-nstructions facilitates the use of electronic instructions in computerized laboratory ex-periments in social sciences. In this article I provide a set of guidelines for the installationand the use of E-nstructions.

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Hidden Costs of Control:Three Repetitions and an Extension

Ploner, Matteo; Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

We report three repetitions of Falk and Kosfeld's (2006) low and medium control treatmentswith 364 subjects. Each repetition employs a sample drawn from a standard subject pool ofstudents and demographics vary across samples. Our results largely conict with those of theoriginal study. We mainly...

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The Provision of Public Goods with Positive GroupInterdependencies

Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested socialdilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into twogroups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoreticallyderived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental...

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Understanding the Two Components of Risk Attitudes: AnExperimental Analysis

Qiu, Jianying; Steiger, Eva-Maria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

Economics and management science share the tradition of ordering risk aversionby fitting the best expected utility (EU … soleindex of risk attitude. (Cumulative) Prospect theory (CPT) has demonstrated vari-ous empirical deficiencies of EU and … introduced the weighting of probabilities as anadditional component to capture risk attitude. However, if utility curvature and …

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Incomplete Preferences in Choice Experiments:A note on avoidable noise and bias in welfare estimates

Kataria, Mitesh; Shogren, Jason F. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

How does a choice experiment (CE) model derived under standard preference axioms perform for respondents with …

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Leading by Words: A Voluntary Contribution ExperimentWith One-Way Communication

Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

In this paper, we study a voluntary contribution mechanism withone-way communication. The relevance of one person’s words is assessedby assigning exogeniously the role of the ‘communicator’ to onegroup member. Contrary to the view that the mutual exchange ofpromises is necessary for the...

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Strategies in Social Network Formation

Conte, Anna; Di Cagno, Daniela; Sciubba, Emanuela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

We run a computerised experiment of network formation where allconnections are benecial and only direct links are … simulated and experimentally gen-erated data to test the determinants of individual behaviour in networkformation. We nd that … test whether subjects follow alternative patterns ofbehaviour and in particular if they: propose links to those from …

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Beyond Procedural Equity and Reciprocity

Chlaß, Nadine; Güth, Werner; Miettinen, Topi - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

Most research in economics models agents somehow motivated by out-comes. Here, we model agents motivated by procedures instead, whereprocedures are dened independently of an outcome. To that end, wedesign procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry thesame information on other's...

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Bargaining Outside the Lab –A Newspaper Experiment of a Three-Person Ultimatum Game

Güth, Werner; Schmidt, Carsten; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2005

In a large scale newspaper experiment 5,132 readers of the German weekly, Die Zeit, participated in a three … experiment. Furthermore, student behavior is not different from non-student behavior when the same age group is considered …

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Political Discrimination in the Aftermath of Violence: the case of the Greek riots.

Hugh-Jones, David; Katsanidou, Alexia; Riener, Gerhard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

police, in modified Dictator games, allowing us to test theories of discrimination on behavior with real payoff consequences … correlate discrimination with attitudes towards the riots themselves, providing a laboratory test of the “frame alignment …

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