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Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion –An experimental investigation

Fellner, Gerlinde; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures ofmyopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment … behaviour under risk. We find thatboth, investment horizons and feedback frequency contribute almost equally tothe effects of … MLA. Longer investment horizons and less frequent feedbacklead to higher investments. However, when given the choice …

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The excess burden of tax evasion - An experimental detection-concealment contest

Bayer, Ralph-C.; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

with risk neutral tax payers predicts. We find evidence that this is rather due to individual moral constraints than due to … risk aversion. …

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Experimental evidence of the importance of gender pairing in bargaining

Sutter, Matthias; Bosman, Ronald; Kocher, Martin; van … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

We study the influence of gender on economic decision making in a two-person bargaining game. By testing hypotheses derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically affects...

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Tax evasion and state productivity - Anexperimental study

Güth, Werner; Strauß, Sabine; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

In an overlapping generations-experiment with multiple families participants caneither support their parents directly …

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Individual behavior and group membership: Comment

Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions withsalient group membership are largely the …

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Response Time under Monetary Incentives:the Ultimatum Game

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; León-Mejía, Ana; Miller, Luis M. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

This paper studies the response times of experimental subjects playingthe Ultimatum game in a laboratory setting using monetary incentives.We find that proposals are not significantly correlated with responsetime, whereas responders’ behavior is positively and significantlycorrelated. Hence,...

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Moral Distance and Moral Motivations in Dictator Games

Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Miller, Luis M. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

We perform an experimenta linvestigation using a dictator game inwhich individuals must make a moral decision —to give or not to give anamount of money to poor people in the Third World. A questionnaire inwhich the subjects are asked about the reasons for their decision showsthat, at least in...

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Personal Identity in the Dictator Game

Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Paz Espinosa, Maria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

function is studied experimentally.The experiment allow us to study the main parametersof the model, suggesting that we should …

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Individual or team decision-making –Causes and consequences of self-selection

Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

Even though decision-making in small teams is pervasive in business and in private life, littleis known about subjects’ preferences with respect to individual and team decision-making andabout the consequences of respecting these preferences. We report the results from anexperimental...

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Tournaments for the endogenous allocating of prizes within workteams - Theory and experimental evidence

Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

We present a model where compensation within a workteam is determinedendogenously by the use of a rank-order tournament. Team memberscompete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prizewithin the team. The implementation of a proposal requires the approvalof other team...

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