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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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On the elicitation and measurement of betrayal aversion
Quercia, Simone - 2015
Betrayal aversion has been operationalized as the evidence that subjects demand a higher risk premium to take social risks compared to natural risks. This evidence has been first shown by Bohnet and Zeckhauser (2004) using an adaptation of the Becker-DeGroot-Marshak mechanism (BDM, Becker et al....
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Information feedback and contest structure in rent-seeking games
Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke; Sefton, Martin - 2012
We investigate the role of information feedback in rent-seeking games with two different contest structures. In the stochastic contest a contestant wins the entire rent with probability equal to her share of rent-seeking expenditures; in the deterministic contest she receives a share of the rent...
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Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation
Thöni, Christian; Gächter, Simon - 2014 - This version: February 2014
too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …
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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2015
laboratory experiments with 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. The experiment use a version of the …There is by now ample evidence from laboratory experiments that individuals exhibit "prosocial" or "other …). In this paper we address this question by using a measure of costly cooperation elicited in a laboratory experiment to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434284
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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015
observed to act in isolation from each other. In this paper we use a large-scale dictator game experiment (N = 850) to show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434301
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Legislative bargaining with heterogeneous disagreement values : theory and experiments
Miller, Luis; Montero, María; Vanberg, Christoph - 2015
decreasing in disagreement values. We conduct experiments involving three players using majority and unanimity rule, finding …
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Reputational concerns in repeated rent-seeking contests
Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke - 2016
We experimentally investigate how reputational concerns affect behavior in repeated Tullock contests by comparing expenditures of participants interacting in fixed groups with the expenditures of participants interacting with randomly changing opponents. When participants receive full...
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
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Conditioning on what? : heterogeneous contributions and conditional cooperation
Hartig, Björn; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Kölle, Felix - 2014
We experimentally investigate how different information about others' individual contributions affects conditional cooperators' willingness to cooperate in a one-shot linear public goods game. We find that when information about individual contributions is provided, contributions are generally...
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