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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...

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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?

Regner, Tobias - 2016

We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

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Other-regarding behaviour : testing guilt- and reciprocity-based models

Regner, Tobias; Harth, Nicole S. - 2010

returned. -- social preferences ; other-regarding behaviour ; experiments ; trust game ; guilt aversion ; beliefs … beliefs and actions into the utility function. We test the robustness of two types of intentions-based models (guilt aversion … and reciprocity). In addition to incentivised elicitation of first- and second-order action beliefs, we assess …

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Corporate social responsibility in the work place : experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game

Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2011

We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant, CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. We are testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits...

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Moral emotions and partnership

Bracht, Juergen; Regner, Tobias - 2011

-regarding behaviour ; experiments ; psychological game theory ; guilt aversion ; shame ; beliefs ; emotions ; partnership … emotions to belief-dependant models in economics. We find that - in addition to the positive effect of second-order beliefs and …

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What drives motivated agents? : the "right" mission or sharing it with the principal

Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015

Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...

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Do voluntary payments to advisors improve the quality of financial advice? : an experimental sender-receiver game

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2012

-receiver game ; reciprocity ; experiments ; voluntary payment …

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Charitable giving among females and males : an empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis

Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - 2012

giving ; social-image concerns ; competitive altruism ; experiments ; social status …

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Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? : an experimental study about self-awareness in status- seeking behavior

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2012

treatment. After the real effort task subjects were asked to state their retrospective beliefs about their performance in public …-awareness ; self-deception ; experiment ; beliefs …

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