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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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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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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - CESifo - 2011

the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228621

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

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G. - 2021

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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas - 2010

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …

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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2012

Previous estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) are lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set …, is important for the acceptance of (some) inequality and the design of redistributive policies as underestimating the …

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