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Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participants can vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing a public good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contribution gradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two richly...
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by the collective rule is essential for the degree of support by the participants. -- cooperation ; experiment ; public …
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The findings on the ultimatum game are considered as belonging to the most robust experimental results. In this paper we present a slightly altered version of the mini ultimatum game of Bolton and Zwick (1995). Whereas in the latter exactly equal splits were feasible in our games these were...
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employees to accept lower wages as well? As an alternative to reviewing statistical data, we have performed an experiment with a … lower competitive wage in the second phase of an employment relationship that is known to both parties. The experiment casts …
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In standard rational choice modelling decisions are made according to given information and preferences. In the model presented here the 'information technology' of individual decision makers as well as their preferences evolve in a dynamic process. In this process decisions are made rationally...
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We investigate simultaneous and sequential price competition in duopoly markets with differentiated products. In both markets symmetric firms are repeatedly and randomly matched. The strategy method is used to elicit behavior in the sequential market. We find that average leader prices in the...
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We study whether selection affects motivation. In our experiment subjects first answer a personality questionnaire …
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(benevolence, intelligence, and reciprocity orientation) on behavior in the role of an "active" player (the giver) and in the role … considerations in his/her offers to the powerless, but not to the powerful receiver. Reciprocity orientation makes male (not female …
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administered incentives. -- principal agent ; experiment ; specific human capital …
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