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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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Rich meets Poor - An International Fairness Experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008
conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
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Composite Valuation of Immaterial Damage in Flooding: Value of Statistical Life, Value of Statistical Evacuation and Value of Statistical Injury
Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2012
This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...
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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms
Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans - 2005
This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...
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Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2024
evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine …
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Aversion to Health Inequality - Pure, Income-Related and Income-Caused
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2023
We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to …
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Bidding for Nothing? The Pitfalls of overly Neutral Framing
Dürsch, Peter; Muller, Julia - 2014
what they think they are tasked with in the experiment. Adding a second auction that has a context drastically reduces the …
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Why Are Open Ascending Auctions Popular? The Role of Information Aggregation and Behavioral Biases
Offerman, Theo; Romagnoli, Giorgia; Ziegler, Andreas G. B. - 2020
activate revenue enhancing biases. In an experiment, we compare three auctions that differ in how much information is revealed …
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How Universal is Behavior?
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted …
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Inducing risk preferences in multi-stage multi-agent laboratory experiments
Dobbs, Ian M.; Miller, Tony - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 16/18, pp. 1924-1939
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