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Justifying the Lindahl Solution as an Outcome of Fair Cooperation

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - 2021

The Lindahl equilibrium is mostly motivated by a rather artificial price mechanism. Even though the analogy to a competitive market has been emphasised by Lindahl himself his approach does not directly explain the normative ideas, which are behind this concept. In the present paper we therefore...

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Let the Market Decide : An Experimental Study of Competition and Fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2021

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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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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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations

Dittrich, Marcus - 2012

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face …

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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützle, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

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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Social Welfare Versus Inequality Concerns in an Incomplete Contract Experiment

Faravelli, Marco; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

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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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...

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Justice under Uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution by feet and then learn their productivity and invest. We vary the individuals' information about their productivities at the time when they choose a distribution rule and find...

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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment

Elias, Julio - 2016

conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

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