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The Provision of Public Goods with Positive GroupInterdependencies

Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested socialdilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into twogroups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoreticallyderived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental...

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Beyond Procedural Equity and Reciprocity

Chlaß, Nadine; Güth, Werner; Miettinen, Topi - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

Most research in economics models agents somehow motivated by out-comes. Here, we model agents motivated by procedures instead, whereprocedures are dened independently of an outcome. To that end, wedesign procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry thesame information on other's...

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Bargaining Outside the Lab –A Newspaper Experiment of a Three-Person Ultimatum Game

Güth, Werner; Schmidt, Carsten; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2005

In a large scale newspaper experiment 5,132 readers of the German weekly, Die Zeit, participated in a three-person bargaining game. In our data analysis we focus on (1) the influence of age, gender, profession and the medium chosen for participation on bargaining behavior and on (2) the external...

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More than Thirty Years of Ultimatum Bargaining Experiments: Motives, Variations, and a Survey of the Recent Literature

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G. - CESifo - 2013

Take-it or leave-it offers are probably as old as mankind. Our objective here is, first, to provide a, probably subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we discuss important extensions of the standard...

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Interregional diversity of fairness concerns –An online ultimatum experiment

Georg, Sebastian J.; Güth, Werner; Walkowitz, Gari; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

the robust stylized facts of thisclass of ultimatum experiments and can be adequately explained by other …

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Trading Goods versus Sharing Money- An Experiment Testing Whether Fairness and Efficiencyare Frame Dependent

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Güth, Werner; Kirstein, Annette - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

Systematic experiments with distribution games (for a survey, see Roth, 1995, ) haveshown that participants are … strongly motivated by fairness and efficiency considerations.This evidence, however, results mainly from experimental designs … fairness are less influential. We investigate and confirm this frame dependencymore systematically by comparing net …

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Rules (of Bidding) to Generate Equal Stated Profits- An Axiomatic Approach -

Güth, Werner - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

Although one may hope to achieve equality of stated profits withoutenforcing it, one may not trust in such voluntary equality seeking andrather try to impose rules (of bidding) guaranteeing it.[...]

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Procedurally Fair Collective Provision : Its Requirements and Experimental Functionality

Güth, Werner - 2014

This paper derives and justifies a procedurally fair bidding mechanism and reviews experiments that apply the mechanism … to public projects provision. In the experiments, not all parties benefit from provision, and the projects' costs can be …

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Voluntary Cooperation Based on Equilibrium Retribution –An Experiment Testing Finite-Horizon Folk Theorems

Bruttel, Lisa V.; Güth, Werner; Kamecke, Ulrich; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009

Unlike previous attempts to implement cooperation in a prisoners’ dilemma gamewith an infinite horizon in the laboratory, we focus on extended prisoners’ dilemmagames in which a second (pure strategy) equilibrium allows for voluntary cooperationin all but the last round. Our four main...

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Downsizing the Labor Force by Low and High Profit Firms– An Experimental Analysis

Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

One may hope to capture the behavioral and emotional eects of downsizingthe labor force in rather abstract settings as an ultimatum game (see Fischeret al. (2008)), or try to explore downsizing in its more natural principalagentscenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter...

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