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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
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generally the same in both treatments, in line with rule-based social preference models, like procedural fairness. …
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fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role … behavior depending on their fairness perceptions, their experienced emotions, and their interaction with responders. We find … that fairness plays an important role in the behavior of proposers. Specifically, deviations from a perceived fairness norm …
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We examine an experimental gift exchange game in which the players can improve upon the unique no-gifts equilibrium through cooperative gift giving. The main feature of the study is that there are two different types of gift exchange, which we call simple and complex exchange, respectively....
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We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...
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for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …
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We consider repeated trust game experiments to study the interplay between explicit and relational incentives. After …
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contract terms. This paper presents results from an experiment designed to address the importance of default breach remedies …
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Recent theoretical work shows that folk theorems can be developed for infinite overlapping generations games. Cooperation in such games can be sustained as a Nash equilibrium. Besides the efficient cooperative equilibrium there is also the inefficient non-cooperative equilibrium. This paper...
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This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured …
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