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Lies in Disguise - A Theoretical Analysis of Cheating

Jr., Martin Dufwenberg; Dufwenberg, Martin - 2016

many experiments (in particular the co-presence of selfish, honest, and partial-lie choices) well. …

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Co-Financing Agreements and Reciprocity: When 'No Deal' is a Good Deal

Jang, Dooseok; Patel, Amrish; Dufwenberg, Martin - 2016

Institutions for co-financing agreements often exist to encourage public good investment. Can such frameworks deliver maximal investment when agents are motivated by reciprocity? We demonstrate that indeed they can, but not in the way one might expect. If maximal investment is impossible in the...

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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem

Dufwenberg, Martin; Patel, Amrish - 2014

Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....

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Frustration and Anger in Games

Battigalli, Pierpaolo; Dufwenberg, Martin; Smith, Alec - 2015

Frustration, anger, and aggression have important consequences for economic and social behavior, concerning for example monopoly pricing, contracting, bargaining, traffic safety, violence, and politics. Drawing on insights from psychology, we develop a formal approach to exploring how...

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Partial norms

D'Adda, Giovanna; Dufwenberg, Martin; Passarelli, Francesco - 2019

relevance. Main results: Normative beliefs influence generosity, as predicted. Degree of partiality leads to more dispersion in …

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Partial Norms

D'Adda, Giovanna - 2019

relevance. Main results: Normative beliefs influence generosity, as predicted. Degree of partiality leads to more dispersion in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889682

The framing of games and the psychology of play

Dufwenberg, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

Psychological game theory can help provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs …, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically, and explore the empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2 …×2 design of one-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject's first- and second-order beliefs, and contributions …

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The framing of games and the psychology of play

Dufwenberg, Martin; Gächter, Simon; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike - 2010

Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs …-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject’s first- and second-order beliefs, and contributions. From a … contributions are related to second- and first-order beliefs, respectively. Our results are consistent with either. -- Framing …

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Informal intellectual collaboration with central colleagues

Georg, Co-Pierre; Opolot, Daniel C.; Rose, Michael E. - 2017

When preparing a research article, academics engage in informal intellectual collaboration by asking their colleagues for feedback. This collaboration gives rise to a social network between academics. We study whether informal intellectual collaboration with an academic who is more central in...

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What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics

Rose, Michael E.; Georg, Co-Pierre - 2021

We present and discuss a novel dataset on informal collaboration in financial economics, manually collected from more than 5,000 acknowledgement sections of published papers. We find that informal collaboration is the norm in financial economics, while generational differences in informal...

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