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The investment game with asymmetric information
Coricelli, Giorgi; Morales, Luis Gonzalez; Mahlstedt, Amelie - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We analyze the effects of introducing asymmetric information andexpectations in the investment game (Berg et al., 1995). In our experiment,only the trustee knows the size of the surplus. Subjects’expectations about each other’s behavior are also elicited. Our resultsshow that average payback...
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Age and the development of trust and reciprocity
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We examine the degree of trust and reciprocity in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different … age groups, ranging from 8 year old primary school children to retired persons in their late sixties. Although both trust … research has devoted surprisingly little attention to their development with age. Our results provide clear evidence that trust …
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On the malleability of fairness ideals: Order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks
Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015
How malleable are people´s fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent people´s allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether people´s fairness ideals vary...
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Religion and trust: an experimental study
Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Vogel, Claudia - 2005
We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity …, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behaviour in a trust game …
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Trust in cooperation or ability? - An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In …
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Are we nice(r) to nice(r) people? An Experimental Analysis
Albert, Max; Güth, Werner; Kirchler, Erich; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002
by allowing participants to condition their choices in an asymmetric prisoner's dilemma and a trust game (i) on their …
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Fairness versus Efficiency - An Experimental Study of (Mutual) Gift Giving
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Ockenfels, Axel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002
Fairness is a strong concern as shown by dictator and ultimatum experiments. Efficiency, measured by the sum of individual payoffs, is a potentially competing concern in games such as the prisoners' dilemma. In our experiment participants can increase efficiency by gift giving. In the one-sided...
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Giving in dictator games: Experimenter demand effect or preference over the rules of the game?
Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2012
Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...
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Voting on a sharing norm in a dictator game
Vanberg, Christoph - 2007
I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a nonbinding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a dictator game. In a baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a voting treatment, subjects are first placed behind a 'veil of ignorance' and vote on the...
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Revealed notions of distributive justice I: Theory
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
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