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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how … fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role …

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …

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Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Goods are often allocated publically by means of queuing processes in developing countries. In such situations, which group of citizens should a corrupt government official favor? In addition, what should be the basis for this favoritism? To the best of our knowledge, these salient questions...

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An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute

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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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...

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How Universal is Behavior?

Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...

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Rich meets Poor - An International Fairness Experiment

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in the world's poorest countries? To study this question and the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social preferences, we conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in...

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The Empirical Economic Growth Literature

Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Heijungs, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

The empirical economic growth literature is criticized for its lack of robustness. For different definitions of robustness, conclusions vary from 'almost every correlation is fragile' to 'a substantial number of explanatory variables are robust.' We re-analyze the empirical results of the...

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Does the Wage Tax System cause Budget Deficits?

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We find support for the hypothesis that...

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Should the Same Side of the Market always move first in a Transaction? An Experimental Study

Heijden, Eline C.M. van der; Nelissen, Jan H.M.; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

This paper investigates whether transactions where the buyer (or the seller) always moves first, and the seller (or the buyer) always moves second in the exchange gives higher payoffs than exchanges in which it is randomly determined who moves first. We examine the effect of two treatment...

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