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Enke, Benjamin - 2013

learning …

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Whistle-Blower Protection : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Mechtenberg, Lydia - 2017

Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...

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Peer Effects in Risk Taking

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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Investment behavior in a constrained dictator game

Coenen, Michael; Jovanovic, Dragan - 2012

We analyze a constrained dictator game in which the dictator splits a pie which will be subsequently created through simultaneous investments by herself and the recipient. We consider two treatments by varying the maximum attainable size of the pie leading to either high or low investment...

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Proof beyond a reasonable doubt : laboratory evidence

Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2015

We investigate how third-party punishers and potential violators decide under evidentiary uncertainty in a take game. In line with the legal requirement and in contrast to economic models, neither the sanction nor the harm level affects the punishment probability, but the quality of evidence...

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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2010

This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...

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