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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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The Hidden Costs of Control:An Unsuccessful Replication Study

Ploner, Matteo; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

This note reports a replication study of Falk and Kosfeld’s (2006) medium control treatment.In the experimental game, an agent has an endowment of 120 experimental currency units anddecides how much to transfer to a principal. For every unit that the agent gives up, the principalreceives two...

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Tax Morale and (De-)Centralization- An Experimental Study

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Sausgruber, Rupert - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

population size of eachregion. The experiment shows that centralization induces lower taxmorale and less efficient outcomes. The …

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Mathematical models in educational planning

Stone, Richard (contributor) - 1967

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Test No. 419: Delayed Neurotoxicity of Organophosphorus Substances: 28-day Repeated Dose Study

1995

This Test Guideline is used in the assessment and evaluation of the toxic effects of organophosporus substances. Daily … doses of the test substance are administered orally (preferably by gavage or administration of gelatin capsules) to domestic … with the aim of inducing toxic effects; thereafter a descending sequence of dose levels should be selected. A limit test …

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System of Environmental Economic Accounting 2012 : Experimental Ecosystems Accounting

2014

Ecosystem accounting is a relatively new and emerging field dealing with integrating complex biophysical data, tracking changes in ecosystems and linking those changes to economic and other human activity. Considering the increasing demand for statistics on ecosystems within analytical and...

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Committing to Incentives: Should the Decision to Sanctionbe Revealed or Hidden?

Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

Sanctions are widely used to promote compliance in principal-agent-relationships.While there is ample evidence confirming the predicted positive incentive effect of sanctions,it has also been shown that imposing sanctions may in fact reduce complianceby crowding-out intrinsic motivation. We add...

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