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Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting control can reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differ in their propensity for...
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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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Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability of three classical solution concepts in a bankruptcy problem. We examine both people's impartial...
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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted …
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We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...
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The formation of social ties is examined in an experimental study of voluntary public good provision. The experiment consists of three parts. In the first part the value orientation (attitude to a generalized other) is measured. In the second part couples play 25 periods of a public good game....
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efficiency, fairness and a new axiom called component balancedness. This latter axiom compares for every component in the …
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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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This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...
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with one another. We introduce a new single-valued solution concept, the component fairness solution. Our solution is … characterized by component efficiency and component fairness. The interpretation of component fairness is that deleting a link … the players in the component. Component fairness replaces the axiom of fairness characterizing the Myerson value, where …
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