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An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies

Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2000

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...

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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy

Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2003

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …

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Incentive Systems in a Real Effort Experiment

van Dijk, Frans; Sonnemans, Joep; van Winden, Frans - 1998

In the reported experiment different payment schemes are examined on theirincentive effects. Payment based on …

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Social Ties in a Public Good Experiment

van Dijk, Frans; Sonnemans, Joep; van Winden, Frans - 1996

The formation of social ties is examined in an experimental study of voluntary public good provision. The experiment …

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Emotional Hazard and Real Effort in a Power-to-Take Game

Bosman, Ronald; Sutter, Matthias; van Winden, Frans - 2000

experiment) or a budget that is provided to them likea sort of manna from heaven(no-effort experiment) . We use the so … moreoften and a greater amount on aggregate in the no-effort experiment;responders more often choosean intermediate amount of … destruction in the no-effort experiment;the behavior of take authorities does not depend on effort;responders expect lower take …

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Partners contribute more to Public Goods than Strangers: Conditional Cooperation

Keser, Claudia; van Winden, Frans - 1997

In a series of experiments, we compare a situation where the same group of four subjects plays 25 repetitions of a …

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Anticipated and Experienced Emotions in an Investment Experiment

Bosman, Ronald; van Winden, Frans - 2001

This paper experimentally investigates investment behavior.We find that global risk – i.e. risk independent of an agent’sinvestment decision (like political risk) – substantiallydecreases investment. Also effort to obtain the capital usedfor investment decreases investment substantially....

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Reciprocity and Emotions when Reciprocators know each other

Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans - 2004

This is an experimental study of a three-player power-to-take game where a take authority is matched with two responders. The game consists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides how much of the endowment of each responder that is left after the second stage will be...

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Reciprocity and Emotions: Arousal, Self-Reports, and Expectations

Ben-Shakhar, Gershon; Bornstein, Gary; Hopfensitz, Astrid; … - 2004

Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the Power-to-Take Game. In this 2-person game, player 1 can...

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Identification of Voters with Interest Groups improves the Electoral Chances of the Challenger

Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans - 2009

Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that, by coordinating voting behavior,these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the...

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