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punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this … resources. The focus is on how proposers adjust their 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 …
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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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We theoretically and experimentally study voter behavior in a setting characterized by plurality rule and mandatory voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment where Condorcet cycles may occur. In particular, we focus...
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-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one … with recent standard economics' explanation of social identity in terms of conformity. Sen's concept of commitment is …
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the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment to the job nor their intrinsic motivation. A steep wage …
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difference here. In sum, bundling works as a commitment device that enables the transfer of market power from one market to …
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We explore the role of firms in insuring non-verifiable output. As a device that allows workers to commit to thedelivery of their output, the firm arises endogenously as an alternative to the market if workers are sufficiently riskaverse and the firm can base its incentive payments on good...
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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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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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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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