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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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This article evaluates Herbert A. Simon’s contribution to organization theory, placing special emphasis on the criterion of bounded rationality. Simon’s criticism of the orthodox version of organizational bureaucracy is interpreted and his analysis is extended to institutional economics. One...
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The aim of this paper is to interpret the relationships between information networks and the armed conflict in Colombia. Over a period of paramilitary violence networks of informants were used with a strategic purpose. In fact, the paramilitaries were preparing each slaughter counting...
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This article offers an approach to the general structure of the rhetoric in economy. In our case we adopted a perspective to study a particular aspect of the rhetoric that comes from the context of a particular controversy: the controversy on the advantages of the free commerce between Daly and...
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