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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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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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Visibility of Contributors and Cost of Information: An Experiment on Public Goods

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

We experimentally investigate the impact of visibility of contributors and cost of information on public good contributions. First, we vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Second, we investigate the effect of imposing a cost on viewing contributors. Recognizing all contributors...

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Cursed beliefs with common-value public goods

Cox, Caleb - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

, despite the absence of free-riding incentives. In a laboratory experiment, subjects indeed under-contribute relative to …

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Can public goods experiments inform policy? Interpreting results in the presence of confused subjects

Cotten, Stephen J.; Ferraro, Paul J.; Vossler, Christian A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

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