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Consumption experience, choice experience and the endowment effect
Humphrey, Steven J.; Lindsay, Luke; Starmer, Chris - 2012
This paper reports an experiment investigating how different kinds of experience influence the endowment effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009678836
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
Prowse experiment are compared, where the latter treatment involves a competition against Nature and removes the scope for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660754
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the description - experience gap
Cubitt, Robin P.; Kopsacheilis, Orestis; Starmer, Chris - 2020
nature and implications for economic theory remain unclear, for reasons we explain. We present a new experiment which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416921
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the description - experience gap
Cubitt, Robin P.; Kopsacheilis, Orestis; Starmer, Chris - 2020
, the nature, causes and implications of the phenomenon for economic theory remain unclear. We present a new experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242996
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Preference reversals and disparities between willingness to pay and willingness to accept in repeated markets
Loomes, Graham; Starmer, Chris; Sugden, Robert - 2009
and selling valuations - are eroded when respondents participate in repeated markets. We report an experiment which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908631
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The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished : experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia
Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2010
We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we onducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990183
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The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished : experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia
Gächter, Simon (contributor);  … - 2007
We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003579958
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Tradeoffs between self-interest and other-regarding preferences cause willpower depletion
Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy - 2014
deplete cognitive resources and willpower and thus reduce individuals' ability to exert self-control. In a lab experiment we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436516
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Fungibility, labels and consumption
Abeler, Johannes; Marklein, Felix - 2010
another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment … of their budget, subjects change consumption according to the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this … Bracketing ; Field Experiment ; Laboratory Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699736
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Contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior among peers and the role of social proximity
Dimant, Eugen - 2018
This paper uses a novel experimental design to study the contagion of pro- and antisocial behavior and the role of social proximity among peers. Across systematic variations thereof, we find that anti-social behavior is generally more contagious than pro-social behavior. Surprisingly, we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011861518