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’s interest in controlling who receives their private information. Participants of an experiment face the decision to share …
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social dilemmas. We subject our model to data from an experimental public goods game and a risk experiment, and we measure …We develop a model relating self-control, risk preferences and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in … cooperation, and the association is weaker for more risk-averse individuals. Free riders differ from other contributor types only …
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We analyze how subjects’ self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their selfassessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...
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that receive different wages. We present the first test of this component, which we call the fair uniform-wage hypothesis …. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
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Does the extent of cheating depend on a proper reference point? We use a real effort task that implements a two (gain versus loss frame) times two (monitored performance versus unmonitored performance) between-subjects design to examine whether cheating is reference-dependent. Our experimental...
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This paper reports findings of a laboratory experiment, which explores how elfassessment regarding the own relative …
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In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the...
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Auctions often involve goods exhibiting a common knowledge ex-post risk that is independent of buyers’ private values … or their signals regarding common value components. Esö and White (2004) showed theoretically that ex-post risk leads to … precautionary bidding for DARA bidders: Agents reduce their bids by more than their appropriate risk premium. Testing precautionary …
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Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test … of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across …
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We present an experimental test of a shirking model where monitoring intensity is endogenous and effort a continuous … maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
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