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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?
Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - 2014
This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences - like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi-maximin, etc.; (ii) deal-responsiveness - reacting to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406346
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Guilt-averse or reciprocal? : looking at behavioural motivations in the trust game
Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016
For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation between back-transfers and second- order beliefs of the trustor: While reciprocity models predict a negative correlation, guilt-aversion models predict a positive one. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480420
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010 - This version: 15 June 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736607
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658544
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Fairness and efficiency in a subjective claims problem
Gantner, Anita; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2013
information they process, and they are compared in terms of efficiency and perceived allocative and procedural fairness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194821
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"They Never Had a Chance" : unequal opportunities and fair redistributions
Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo; Lien, Jaimie W - 2022 - This Version: July 6, 2022
A meritocratic fairness ideal is generally believed to regard income inequality as fair if it stems from performance … lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328107
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Fair division in unanimity bargaining with subjective claims
Gantner, Anita; Horn, Kristian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2013
Offer and the Exit variant - in terms of fairness and efficiency. To assess the fairness of the allocations obtained by … elicited in a hypothetical fairness question, and we evaluate them from an impartial point of view using spectators' responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194818
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Fairness in times of crisis : negative shocks, relative income and preferences for redistribution
Hochleitner, Anna - 2022
how fairness views themselves are affected by negative shocks. To answer this question, I conduct two experimental studies … investigating the causal link between income shocks and preferences for redistribution. While Study 1 exogenously manipulates within … an egalitarian fairness view. Participants who are relatively richer, by contrast, distribute resources proportionate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169002
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Unequal opportunities, social groups, and redistribution : evidence from the general population
Schwaiger, Rene; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2020
redistribution. We present results from a large-scale online experiment with more than 4,000 participants. The experiment features a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253092
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Why did he do that? : using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games
Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016
We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480554