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Reference Points in Renegotiations: The Role of Contracts and Competition

Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this …

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Kalaycı, Kenan; Serra-Garcia, Marta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We examine experimentally the effect of complexity on individual decision making. We focus on credit choices, as they have been widely criticized for their complexity in recent years. In a first study, we find that complexity in benefits leads to random mistakes, while complexity in costs leads...

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Do Women Have More Shame than Men? An Experiment on Self-Assessment and the Shame of Overestimating Oneself

Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We analyze how subjects’ self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their selfassessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...

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On The Complexity of Eliminating Fuel Subsidy in Indonesia; A Behavioral Approach

Pradiptyo, Rimawan; Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

People’s attachment to a subsidy creates difficulties for the government to phase out, and eventually eliminate, the subsidy. Elimination of fuel subsidy scheme in Indonesia is a perfect example of such occurrence. The subsidy has been implementing to commodity as opposed to households, thus...

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Do Women Panic More Than Men? An Experimental Study on Financial Decision

Kiss, Hubert Janos; Rodriguez-Lara, Ismael; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We report experimental evidence on gender differences in financial decision that involves three depositors choosing between waiting or withdrawing their money from a common bank. We find that the position in the line, the fact of being observed and the observed decisions are key determinants to...

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Testing for Differences across Genders: A Replication of Ultimatum Game at International Islamic University, Islamabad

HASAN, HAMID; EJAZ, NAUMAN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The paper attempts to test the following hypotheses: (i) Are people generally self interested, (ii) If people tend to … experiment in a “same gender pairings” setting in International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. In order to test the … test the second hypothesis we compare the offers that proposers anticipate will be accepted by the responders and the …

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Love me, love my dog: an experimental study on social connections and indirect reciprocity

Liang, Pinghan; Meng, Juanjuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper conducts a laboratory experiment to investigate the role of social connections in behavioral indirect reciprocity. We provide the evidence of spillovers effects of social ties, e.g., the recipient’s indirect reciprocal act varies with the relations between the donor and a third...

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Egocentric framing - one way people may fail in a switch dilemma: Evidence from excessive lane switching

Navon, David; Kaplan, Todd; Kasten, Ronen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

To study switching behavior, an experiment mimicking the state of a driver on the road was conducted. In each trial participants were given a chance to switch lanes. Despite the fact that lane switching had no sound rational basis, participants often switched lanes when the speed of driving in...

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A growing pain: an experimental approach to discover the most acceptable strategy for lifting fuel subsidy scheme in Indonesia

Pradiptyo, Rimawan; Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Fuel subsidy has been the biggest quandaries in Indonesian economy, as it has been creating a huge opportunity costs to the economy. The subsidy is implemented to a consumer good (i.e. fuels) as oppose to targeted recipients, creating distortion in the efficient resource allocation. It was...

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Justification and cooperation

Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The need for justification is a widely observed social phenomenon. This paper develops a theoretical framework and reports laboratory evidence to show how pure justification pressure affects cooperative behavior in economic exchange environments. In a one-shot anonymous interaction, compared...

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