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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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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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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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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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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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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …
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prospects involving both gains and losses. In an experiment we find that risk aversion for gains is robust under time pressure … whereas risk seeking for losses turns into risk aversion under time pressure. For mixed prospects, subjects become more loss …
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An extensive literature has studied ambiguity aversion in economic decision making, and how ambiguity aversion can account for empirically observed violations of expected utility-based theories. Almost all relevant applied models presume a general dislike of ambiguity. In this paper, we provide...
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We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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