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People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide clean evidence that previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of...
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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...
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Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers. Sellers who feel shortchanged can engage in counterproductive behavior to punish the buyer. We find that the same unfavorable terms of trade...
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We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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then split joint benefits. We investigate how social preferences determine investments. In our experiment we find that even …-sharing can be successful in the experiment, even when it is not in a selfish world …
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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...
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the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment. Because collusive tax evasion involves social interaction, this paper …
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Politicians may pander to public opinion and may renounce undertaking beneficial long-term projects. To alleviate this problem, we introduce a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is used to...
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requires the use of an appropriate incentive contract so as to realign his interests with those of the principal. The parties … of the optimal flexible contract both when the parties have sharp probabilistic beliefs over the possible events in which … risk aversion, the higher the agency costs for delegation and hence the less profitable is a flexible contract versus a …
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the fairs. It finds that contract enforcement at the fairs did not take the form of private-order or corporative …
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