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Tearing the Veil of Privacy Law: An Experiment on Chilling Effects and the Right to Be Forgotten

Hermstrüwer, Yoan; Dickert, Stephan - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013

Privacy law relies on the argument that consent does not entail any relevant impediments for the liberty of the consenting individual. Challenging this argument, we experimentally investigate whether consent to the publication of personal information in cyberspace entails self-coercion on a...

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Tacit Coordination in Games with Third-Party Externalities

Bland, James; Nikiforakis, Nikos - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013

When agents face coordination problems their choices often impose externalities on third parties. We investigate whether such externalities can affect equilibrium selection in a series of one-shot coordination games varying the size and the sign of the externality. We fi?nd that third-party...

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Social Dilemmas, Revisited from a Heuristics Perspective

Engel, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2004

The standard tool for analysing social dilemmas is game theory. They are reconstructed as prisoner dilemma games. This is helpful for understanding the incentive structure. Yet this analysis is based on the classic homo oeconomicus assumptions. In many real world dilemma situations, these...

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Selfishness As a Potential Cause of Crime. A Prison Experiment

Chmura, Thorsten; Engel, Christoph; Englerth, Markus - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013

For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the expected value of criminal sanctions, i.e. the product of severity times certainty, is often below the expected benefit. We rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics,...

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Fairness and Persuasion. How Stakeholder Communication Affects Impartial Decision Making

Kleine, Marco; Langenbach, Pascal; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2014

We study experimentally whether and to what extent impartial decision makers are influenced by stakeholders’ fairness … opinions in an allocation decision. The setting allows for different focal fairness rules to be considered. We compare … the driving force behind this result: impartial decision makers deviate from their initial fairness judgment and follow …

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Cui Bono, Benefit Corporation? An Experiment Inspired by Social Enterprise Legislation in Germany and the US

Fischer, Sven; Goerg, Sebastian; Hamann, Hanjo - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013

How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...

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Goals (th)at Work – Goals, Monetary Incentives, and Workers’ Performance

Goerg, Sebastian; Kube, Sebastian - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2012

In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work performance. Employees are observed in a natural work environment where they have to do a simple, but effort-intense task. Output is perfectly observable and workers are paid for...

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Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht und ökonomische Theorie

Engel, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011

The novel part of this paper is a model of the principle of proportionality, as the cornerstone of the doctrine of fundamental rights. German law, and with some modifications also the law of the European Community and the European Convention on Human Rights, do not categorically outlaw...

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Noisy commitments: The impact of information accuracy on efficiency

Ert, Eyal; Nicklisch, Andreas - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2006

We report an experiment designed to test the influence of noisy commitments on efficiency in a simple bargaining game. We investigate two different levels of commitment reliability in a variant of the peasant-dictator game. Theoretical analysis suggests that the reliability of commitments in...

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The Role of Choice in Social Dilemma Experiments

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P.; Apesteguia, Jose - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2003

On the basis of problems related to asymmetric information, self-governance has been proposed and often empirically found to be superior to the external imposition of rules in social dilemma situations. The present paper suggests and experimentally analyses a different line of argument, namely...

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