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Can intentions spoil the kindness of a gift? : an experimental study

Strassmair, Christina - 2009

, with which the second mover in a trust game can reciprocate, and analyze effects on second mover behavior. Our results …

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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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Revealed notions of distributive justice II: Experimental evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....

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An ultimatum game with multidimensional response strategies

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Nardi, Chiara; … - 2014

We enrich the choice task of responders in ultimatum games by allowing them to independently decide whether to collect what is offered to them and whether to destroy what the proposer demanded. Such a multidimensional response format intends to cast further light on the motives guiding responder...

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Would you mind if I get more? An experimental study of the envy game

Casal, Sandro; Güth, Werner; Jia, Mofei; Ploner, Matteo - 2011

Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the size of the pie to be shared with a responder, whose share...

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Screening, competition, and job design : economic origins of good jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010

implement a control strategy, which consists of low effort discretion and little or no rent-sharing, or they implement a trust … control strategy prevails, while the possibility of screening renders the trust strategy profitable. The introduction of … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …

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Is the veil of ignorance only a concept about risk? : an experiment

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2007

We implement the Rawlsian thought experiment of a veil of ignorance in the laboratory which introduces risk and possibly social preferences. We find that both men and women react to the risk introduced by the veil of ignorance. Only the women additionally exhibit social preferences that reflect...

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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-based Lucas Critique of Public Policy

Bowles, Samuel; Reyes, Sandra Polanía - CESifo - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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You owe me

Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...

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