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Optimal and Fair Prizing in Sequential Round-Robin Tournaments : Experimental Evidence
Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2022
the prize structure affects the intensity, fair-ness, and dynamic behavior in sequential round-robin tournaments with three …
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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation and Trust
Columbus, Simon; Kasper, Matthias; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2023
This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...
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Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...
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Complexity and Distributive Fairness Interact in Affecting Compliance Behavior
Bellemare, Charles - 2019
intrinsically linked to distributive fairness. We find that compliance remains largely unaffected by complexity when income taxes …
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Spite vs. Risk : Explaining Overbidding
Kirchkamp, Oliver - 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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Spite in Litigation
Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023
This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...
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Diagnostic Uncertainty and Insurance Coverage in Credence Goods Markets
Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2021
Credence goods markets – like for health care or repair services – with their informational asymmetries between sellers and customers are prone to fraudulent behavior of sellers and resulting market inefficiencies. We present the first model that considers both diagnostic uncertainty of...
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Homophily and Transmission of Behavioral Traits in Social Networks
Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2023
Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily: behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important determinants...
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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies
Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in … the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different … low productivity individuals is not perceived as fairer than an absence of affirmative action. Higher fairness perceptions …
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Religious Identity, Trust, Reciprocity, and Prosociality : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
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