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Path dependence in public-good games
Bruttel, Lisa; Friehe, Tim - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2011
This paper presents experimental evidence that contributions to a public good can be path-dependent for a limited time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225723
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Incentive Effects of Funding Contracts: An Experiment
Reiss, J. Philipp; Wolff, Irenaeus - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2011
experiment with four types of contracts (standard debt contract, outside equity, non-monotonic contract, full-subsidy contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325864
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Size matters - when it comes to lies
Eisenkopf, Gerald; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Utikal, Verena - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2011
’ truth telling is absolute or depends on the size of a lie. In a laboratory experiment we compare punishment for different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644468
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Disadvantageous lies in individual decisions
Fischbacher, Urs; Utikal, Verena - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2011
We present experimental evidence on the existence of disadvantageous lies. Literature so far assumes that people do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359469
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Taking the initiative. What characterizes leaders?
Bruttel, Lisa; Fischbacher, Urs - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2010
this game with small experimental games and questionnaires, we investigate the motives and personality characteristics that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740238
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A fault confessed is half redressed - Confessions and Punishment
Utikal, Verena - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2010
laboratory experiment I examine how confessions work. I analyze whether the willingness to punish harmful failures depends on how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740239
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Agenda Setting and Reciprocal Vote Trading
Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2010
experiment in which a committee decides sequentially on three independent bills. Selfish committee members would turn down all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740240
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On the path-dependence of tax compliance
Bruttel, Lisa; Friehe, Tim - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2010
This paper presents experimental evidence that tax compliance is path dependent. We show that individuals faced with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740241
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Competition within firms
Bruttel, Lisa; Schudy, Simeon - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2010
experiment four subsidiaries of the same parent operate in the same market. Parents earn a specific share of the joint profit and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740242
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Cooperation norms in multiple-stage punishment
Nicklisch, Andreas; Wolff, Irenaeus - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2010
We analyze the interplay between cooperation norms and people's punishment behavior in a social-dilemma game with multiple punishment stages. By combining multiple punishment stages with self- contained episodes of interaction, we are able to disentangle the e ects of retaliation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542686