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Searching for a better deal - on the influence of group decision making, time pressure and gender in a search experiment

Ibanez, Marcela; Czermak, Simon; Sutter, Matthias - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

We study behavior in a search experiment where sellers receive randomized bids from a computer. At any time, sellers …

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Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries

Martinsson, Peter; Pham-Khanh, Nam; Villegas-Palacio, Clara - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two developing...

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Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games

Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot normal-form games …

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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...

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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …

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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...

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Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation

Hasson, Reviva; Löfgren, Åsa; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change...

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The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Matzat, Dominik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior and trust are positively associated with cooperation in a public...

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Intertemporal Choice Shifts in Households: Do they occur and are they good?

Carlsson, Fredrik; Yang, Xiaojun - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time preferences were …

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Intra-household decisions making on intertemporal choices: An experimental study in rural China

Yang, Xiaojun; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

In this paper, we conduct a high stake experiment in rural China to investigate the determinants of individual and … household characteristics related to the relative influence, we do find a link between relative influence in the experiment and … decisions nor the initial control of the endowment in the joint decision affects the behavior in the experiment. …

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