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Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …

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Cumplimiento fiscal y bienes públicos: ¿Son realmente compatibles?

Sour, Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both …

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Perfect-Substitutes, Best-Shot, and Weakest-Link Contests between Groups

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …

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Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods

Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...

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Does Public Good Provision Determine Incumbent’s Fate? Evidence from India

Paul, Saumik; Denzau, Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we empirically examine whether public facilities like providing primary school, medical clinics, electricity etc help incumbents to stay in power. Specifically, we analyze the parliamentary election outcomes in 483 constituents in rural India from 1971 to 1991. This study is based...

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Cournot Competition between Teams: An Experimental Study

Schipper, Burkhard C.; Raab, Philippe - 2004

In the economic literature on market competition, firms are often modeled as single decision makers and the internal organization of the firm is neglected (unitary player assumption). However, as the literature on strategic delegation suggests, one can not generally expect that the behavior of...

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An experimental test of career concerns

Morgenstern, Albrecht; Koch, Alexander Karl; Raab, Philippe - 2004

Holmström’s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision...

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Rage Against the Machines: How Subjects Learn to Play Against Computers

Dürsch, Peter; Kolb, Albert; Oechssler, Jörg; … - 2005

We use an experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers which are programmed to follow one of a … play, imitation, reinforcement learning, and a trial & error process. We test whether subjects try to influence those … and that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation. The experiment was …

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Does Modernization Improve Performance: Evidence from Indian Police

Kumar, Surender; Kumar, Sudesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper aims to measure the role of police modernization scheme in its performance in crime repression. We use output distance function as an analytical tool and estimate it using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) framework in a ‘single stage’. We find that the police modernization...

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Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from India

Kumar, Surender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper empirically examines the causality between crime rates and economic growth using state level data in India. A reduced form equation has been estimated using instrumental variable approach to correct for joint endogeneity between crime and economic growth. Higher crimes may reduce...

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