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Risk Attitude, Beliefs, and Information in a Corruption Game - An Experimental Analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555244
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Corruption and Innovation: A Grease or Sand relationship?
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity … be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative … effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090534
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: Murdering Journalists as an Enforcement Mechanism of Corrupt Deals
Freytag, Andreas; Björnskov, C. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
whistle on corruption. We demonstrate in a simple game-theoretical model how murders can serve as an enforcement mechanism of … through three periods, we find that corruption is strongly related to the incidence of murders on journalists in countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861933
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Provision of Multilevel Public Goods through Positive Externalities: Experimental Evidence
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884475
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Strategic Communication: An Experimental Investigation
Eckartz, Katharina; Ehses-Friedrich, Christiane - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
's knowledge public knowledge. The experiment replicates the results of earlier experimental studies (Dickhaut et al., 1995, Cai …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884477
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Choosing whether to compete: Price and format competition with consumer confusion
Crosetto, Paolo; Gaudeul, Alexia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We run a market experiment where firms can choose not only their price but also whether to present comparable offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942823
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Contests with Incumbency Advantages: An Experiment Investigation of the Effect of Limits on Spending Behavior and Outcome
Otsubo, HHironori - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
candidates are asymmetric only in that the incumbent wins the contest in case of a tie. Theory predicts that in the presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548160
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Is Regulation by Milestones Efficiency Enhancing? - An Experimental Study of Environmental Protection -
Freytag, Andreas; Güth, Werner; Koppel, Hannes; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Viewing individual contributions as investments in emission reduction we rely on the familiar linear public goods- game to set global reduction targets which, if missed, imply that all payoffs are destroyed with a certain probability. Regulation by milestones does not only impose a final...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751288
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Fairness norms can explain the emergence of specific cooperation norms in the Battle of the Prisoners Dilemma
Winter, Fabian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
different shadows of the future and degrees of asymmetry and tested in a lab-experiment. Our experimental data show that game … theory fairly well predicts the basic main effects of our experimental manipulations, but "behavioral" predictions perform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641479
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The Provision of Public Goods with Positive Group Interdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472642