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Bolle, Friedel; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2010

competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an …

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Participatory accountability and collective action : experimental evidence from Albania

Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - 2013

It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put institutions in place that allow citizens to hold public servants to account, but citizens must participate in those institutions if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a...

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Complicity without connection or communication

Barr, Abigail; Michailidou, Georgia - 2016

We use a novel experiment to investigate whether people aim to coordinate when, to do so, they have to lie; and are …

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Understanding perpetual R&D races

Breitmoser, Yves (contributor); … - 2008

; innovation ; dynamics ; experiment …

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On the social appropriateness of discrimination

Barr, Abigail; Lane, Tom; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015

Understanding what motivates discrimination is of importance to economists and social scientists in general. In this paper, the authors address whether the taste to discriminate against outsiders is related to social norms. Recent studies have shown various different types of economic behaviour...

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On the social inappropriateness of discrimination

Barr, Abigail; Lane, Tom; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2017 - This is a revised version of 2015-25

We experimentally investigate the relationship between discriminatory behaviour and the perceived social inappropriateness of discrimination. We test the framework of Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2005), which suggests discrimination will be stronger when social norms favour it. Our results support...

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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab

Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2023

the causal relationship running from inequality to instability. Specifically, we conduct a laboratory experiment. In the … experiment, two groups are interacting with each other repeatedly and have an incentive to cooperate even though cooperation … comes at the cost of inter-group inequality. In the second half of the experiment, we vary the extent of the inequality …

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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab

Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2024 - [Revised version of 2023-13]

causal relationship running from inequality to social instability. We run a laboratory experiment in which two groups …

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A self-funding reward mechanism for tax compliance

Fatas, Enrique; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin; … - 2015

We compare in a laboratory experiment two audit-based tax compliance mechanisms that collect fines from those found non …

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Risk taking and sharing when risk exposure is interdependent

Barr, Abigail; Owens, Trudy; Perera, Ashira - 2017

Using a specially designed experiment, we investigate whether and how interdependence in risk exposure i.e., risk …

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