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Testing Forbearance Experimentally - Duopolistic Competition of Conglomerate Firms
Güth, Werner; Häger, Kirsten; Kirchkamp, Oliver; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
.e., firms competing on multiple structurally unrelated markets, can effectively limit competition. Our more general analysis … effects of forbearance and repeated interaction. Surprisingly, conglomerate firms do not limit competition, they rather foster …
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Explaining Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Gender-Task Stereotypes
Grosse, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487471
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Time to Defect: Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma Experiments with Uncertain Horizon
Bruttel, Lisa; Güth, Werner; Kamecke, Ulrich - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Using a symmetric 2-person prisoners' dilemma as the base game, each player receives a signal for the number of rounds to be played with the same partner. The actual number of rounds (the length of the supergame) is determined by the maximal signal where each player expects the other's signal to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051042
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Tit for Others' Tat Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments with Third-Party Monitoring and Indirect Punishment
Bruttel, Lisa; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Two pairs of two participants each interact repeatedly in two structurally independent but informationally linked Prisoner's Dilemma games. Neither pair receives feedback about past choices by their own partner but is fully informed about the choices by the other pair. Considering this as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884463
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Alternating or compensating? An experimentrepeated sequential best shot game
Bruttel, Lisa; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In the two-person sequential best shot game, first player 1 contributes to a public good and then player 2 is informed about this choice before contributing. The payoff from the public good is the same for both players and depends only on the maximal contribution. Efficient voluntary cooperation...
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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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Community Projects: An Experimental Analysis of a Fair Implementation Process
Cicognani, Simona; D'Ambrosio, Aanna; Güth, Werner; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We define and experimentally test a public provision mechanism that meets three basic ethical requirements and allows community members to influence, via monetary bids, which of several projects is implemented. For each project, participants are assigned personal values, which can be positive or...
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The Causal Effect of Cognitive Abilities on Economic Behavior: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We identify the causal effect of cognitive abilities on economic behavior in an experimental setting. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, we identify the causal effect of working memory on subjects' forecasting performance, while also accounting for the effect of other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391901
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Effects of exclusion on social preferences
Fischer, Sven; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In three party ultimatum games the proposer can first decide whether to exclude one responder, what increases the available pie. The experiments control for intentionality of exclusion and veto power of the third party. We do not find evidence for indirect reciprocity of the remaining responder...
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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 task-specific abilities. In a memory-intensive task situated in an accounting context, the effect of accounting education on performance is stronger under financial incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358647