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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 …

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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 experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...

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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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Hurting hurts more than Helping helps: The Role of the Self-serving Bias

Offerman, Theo - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

This paper investigates an implication of the self-serving bias for reciprocal responses. It is hypothesized that negative intentionality matters more than positive intentionality for reciprocating individuals with a self-serving attributional style. Experimental evidence obtained in the hot...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209471

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

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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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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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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Nonrenewable Resources, Strategic Behavior and the Hotelling Rule: An Experiment

Veldhuizen, Roel van; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This study uses the methods of experimental economics to investigate possible causes for the failure of the Hotelling rule for nonrenewable resources. We argue that as long as resource stocks are high enough, producers may choose to (partially) ignore the dynamic component of their production...

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