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Appropriating the Commons A Theoretical Explanation
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - CESifo - 2001
In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common … pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181497
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Mine, Ours and Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Bergh, Andreas - 2018
This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915458
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Justifying the Lindahl Solution as an Outcome of Fair Cooperation
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2021
distributional equity. Fairness among agents with different preferences is taken into account by considering their marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318275
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Fairness and the Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights
Fehr, Ernst; Kremhelmer, Susanne; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2005
We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765975
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Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity – Evidence and Economic Applications
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2000
systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and … reciprocity. Moreover, several theoretical papers have been written showing that the observed phenomena can be explained in a … insights into the nature of preferences and into the relative performance of competing theories of fairness. The purpose of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094414
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A Theory of Reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - CESifo - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765909
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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control
von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding …-out if individuals differ in their propensity for reciprocity and preferences are private information. Not being controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315983
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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control
Siemens, Ferdinand von - CESifo - 2011
by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding …-out if individuals differ in their propensity for reciprocity and preferences are private information. Not being controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278134
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Understanding the Emergence of Public Debt
Fochmann, Martin; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2014
We use a controlled laboratory experiment with and without overlapping generations to study the emergence of public debt. Public debt is chosen by popular vote, pays for public goods, and is repaid with general taxes. With a single generation, public debt is accumulated prudently, never leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877837
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Profressivity of Burden-Sharing in a Lindahl Equilibrium
Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2017
In this paper, we show that progressivity (regressivity) of burden sharing in a Lindahl equilibrium is a direct consequence of gross complementarity (substitutability) between the private and the public good when the public good is taken as the numéraire. We, moreover, link the respective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942375