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Cooperating, Fast and Slow : Testing the Social Heuristics Hypothesis
Stromland, Eirik - 2016
Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) proposes that fast instinctive decision making promotes cooperation in social dilemmas. In this paper …, we conduct a novel time-pressure experiment to shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of cooperation. Although we find …
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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms
Reuben, Ernesto; Van Winden, F. A. A. M. - 2021
This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318739
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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 negative. The experimental results indicate that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060963
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Collusive Tax Evasion and Social Norms
Abraham, Martin A. - 2015
the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment. Because collusive tax evasion involves social interaction, this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028921
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The Dynamics of Dictator Behavior
Sass, Markus; Timme, Florian; Weimann, Joachim - 2021
Choosing between selfish and non-selfish behavior in real life is a repeated decision with varying time spans between repetitions. To learn more about the dynamics of altruistic behavior, we use repeated standard dictator experiments. The dynamics of prosocial behavior in these experiments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315543
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Team or Individual : What Determines Workers' Preferred Bonus Schemes?
Torsvik, Gaute - 2011
This paper uses data from a firm with team production to investigate the association between workers' productivity …, risk aversion and preferred bonus scheme (team or individual). Standard economics make a strong prediction in this case …. Workers persistently producing above the team average should vote for an individual bonus. The only concern that may moderate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117787
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Worker-Specific Effects of Globalisation
Egger, Hartmut - 2009
This paper sets up a general equilibrium model, in which firms are heterogeneous due to productivity differences and workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their factor return is sufficiently high. With the wage considered to be fair by workers depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155424
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Complexity, Efficiency, and Fairness of Multi-Product Monopoly Pricing
Miravete, Eugenio J. - 2014
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board administers the purchase and sale of wine and spirits and is mandated to charge a uniform 30% markup on all products. We use an estimated discrete choice model of demand for spirits, together with information on wholesale prices, to assess the implications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055988
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Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc - 2018
While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927516
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Justice Under Uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2021
An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty …
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