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Lahno, Amrei M.; Serra-Garcia, Marta - CESifo - 2012

We examine peer effects in risk taking with complete information and compare explanations for peer effects based on relative payoff concerns to explanations that allow peer choices to matter. We vary experimentally whether individuals can condition a simple lottery choice on the lottery choice,...

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The Effect of Incentives of Real Effort : Evidence from the Slider Task

de Araujo, Felipe Augusto - 2015

learning, and even idiosyncratic variation. Our paper cautions that the slider task will be underpowered for uncovering a …

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Altruistic Observational Learning

March, Christoph - 2016

We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning … opportunities to learn about the strategies played by observed which amplifies the impact of altruism on observational learning …

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Adaptive Social Learning

March, Christoph - 2016

The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly … interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their … behavior in the long-run if and only if individuals distinguish social-learning settings and receive rich feedback after each …

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How competitiveness may cause a gender wage gap : experimental evidence

Heinz, Matthias; Normann, Hans-Theo; Rau, Holger A. - 2016

We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose a remuneration scheme (competitive tournament vs. piece rate) and then conduct a real-effort task. Employers know the pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration...

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Looking at the bright side : the motivation value of overconfidence

Chen, Si; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2018

obvious relevance for many contexts such as labor relations or learning at school. As a further conceptual contribution, we …

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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to Seek Further Challenges

Buser, Thomas - CESifo - 2014

How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...

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Reciprocity and Emotions: Arousal, Self-Reports, and Expectations

Ben-Shakhar, Gershon; Bornstein, Gary; Hopfensitz, Astrid; … - CESifo - 2004

Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the Power-to-Take Game. In this 2-person game, player 1 can...

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Dynamic Choice, Independence and Emotions

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Winden, Frans van - CESifo - 2007

From the viewpoint of the independence axiom of expected utility theory, an interesting empirical dynamic choice problem involves the presence of a “global risk”, that is, a chance of losing everything whichever safe or risky option is chosen. In this experimental study, participants have to...

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