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On the Channels of Pro-Social Behavior Evidence from a natural field experiment
Koppel, Hannes; Schulze, Günther G. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We conduct a natural field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms for small donations. Charitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008473489
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The Effect of Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Abilities on Task Performance
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We extend evidence on the interaction between financial incentives and cognitive abilities by focusing on the effect of … on performance is stronger under financial incentives as compared to flat rate pay. Subjects with more accounting … education respond stronger to financial incentives. Hence using incentives efficiently may involve targeting them at high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358647
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Full agreement and the provision of threshold public goods
Alberti, Federica; Cartwright, Edward J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We report threshold public good experiments in which group members not only need to be individually willing to contribute enough to provide the public good but also have to agree with each other on what every group members should contribute. We find strong support to the hypothesis that full...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bargaining and Negotiations What should experimentalists explore more thoroughly?
Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A long time ago most economists would have limited themselves to stating that agreements should be individually rational and efficient and that selecting a specific agreement from that set depends on bargaining and negotiation power whatever that may be. Nowadays hardly any economist will argue...
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Social Preferences? Google Answers!
Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We analyse pricing, effort and tipping decisions in the online service "Google Answers" While users set a price for the answer to their question ex ante, they can additionally give a tip to the researcher ex post. In line with the related experimental literature we find evidence that tipping is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012075
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Will You Accept Without Knowing What? A Thuringian Newspaper Experiment of the Yes-No Game
Güth, Werner; Kirchkamp, Oliver - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
experiment to learn more about external validity of lab research. Our workhorse is the Yes-No game. Unlike in ultimatum games …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497738
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Do Consumers Pay Voluntarily? The Case of Online Music
Regner, Tobias; Barria, Javier A. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper analyses the payment behaviour of customers of the online music label Magnatune. Customers may pay what they want for albums, as long as the payment is within a given price range ($5-$18). Magnatune’s comprehensive pre-purchase access facilitates music discovery and allows an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090464