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Kirchkamp, Oliver; Mill, Wladislaw - 2019

In this paper we use an experiment to compare a theory of risk aversion and a theory of spite as an explanation for overbidding in auctions. As a workhorse we use the second-price all-pay and the first-price winner-pay auction. Both risk and spite can be used to rationalize deviations from risk...

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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment

Kirchkamp, Oliver; Mill, Wladislaw - 2018

We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish others. In particular, we disentangle the decision to be a...

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Cross-Game Learning and Cognitive Ability in Auctions

Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kocher, Martin G. - 2021

Overbidding in second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use...

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Discrimination at Young Age: Experimental Evidence from Preschool Children

Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2018

Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...

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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015

According to Chen’s (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We...

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Collective Intertemporal Decisions and Heterogeneity in Groups

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...

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Discrimination in the General Population

Angerer, Silvia; Brosch, Hanna; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2024

We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we randomly vary receivers' migration background and other...

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The Formation of Risk Preferences through Small-Scale Events

Angerer, Silvia; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2021

Large, macroeconomic shocks in the past have been shown to influence economic decisions in the present. We study in an experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In line with a reinforcement learning model, we...

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The Roots of Cooperation

Bašic, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest...

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Too Lucky to be True - Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating

Bortolotti, Stefania; Soraperra, Ivan; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2017

inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … outcome. Although third parties cannot verify cheating, we find that the mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views of ….e., participants who never redistribute. Without cheating opportunities, libertarian fairness views dominate, while egalitarian views …

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