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Do voluntary payments to advisors improve the quality of financial advice? : an experimental sender-receiver game

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2012

-receiver game ; reciprocity ; experiments ; voluntary payment …

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?

Regner, Tobias - 2016

) is added in order to introduce reciprocity. We find significantly higher rates of selfish choices in our treatments that …

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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation … reciprocity. Among our subjects, 40% of the reciprocators exploited moral wiggle room. …

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Other-regarding behaviour : testing guilt- and reciprocity-based models

Regner, Tobias; Harth, Nicole S. - 2010

and reciprocity). In addition to incentivised elicitation of first- and second-order action beliefs, we assess … intentions-based models. Both second-order beliefs and the weighting factor that depends on a participant's sensitivity to guilt/reciprocity … returned. -- social preferences ; other-regarding behaviour ; experiments ; trust game ; guilt aversion ; beliefs …

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Why consumers pay voluntarily : evidence from online music

Regner, Tobias - 2010

reciprocity and guilt appear to be the major drivers for generous voluntary payments. Being inclined to follow social norms is a … industry ; reciprocity ; guilt ; social norms ; altruism ; fairness ; social-image concerns ; survey …

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The role of diagnostic ability in markets for expert services

Liu, Fang; Rasch, Alexander; Schwarz, Marco; Waibel, … - 2020

In credence goods markets, experts have better information about the appropriate quality of treatment than their customers. Experts may exploit their informational advantage by defrauding customers. Market institutions have been shown theoretically to be effective in mitigating fraudulent expert...

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What drives fraud in a credence goods market? : evidence from a field study

Rasch, Alexander; Waibel, Christian - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of four key economic variables on an expert firm's incentive to defraud its customers in a credence goods market: the level of competition, the expert firm's financial situation, its competence, and its reputational concerns. We use and complement the dataset...

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the work place –Experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game

Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011

We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility(CSR) on workers’ motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant,CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. Weare testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits given...

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What drives motivated agents? : the "right" mission or sharing it with the principal

Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015

Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...

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