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Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno; Tran, Giang - 2016

find that individuals' risk preferences are predictive for giving in both experiments. Increased risk exposure of … correlated with giving in the absence of risk. We find limited support for existing models of ex-post and ex-ante fairness. Our …

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Preferences for redistribution and pensions : what can we learn from experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved?. -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …

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Justice under uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2013

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 some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although,...

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Measuring time and risk preferences : realiability, stability, domain specificity

Wölbert, Eva; Riedl, Arno - 2013

To accurately predict behavior economists need reliable measures of individual time preferences and attitudes toward risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount...

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Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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Free neighborhood choice boosts socially optimal outcomes in stag-hunt coordination problem

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2021

Situations where independent agents need to align their activities to achieve individually and socially beneﬁcial outcomes are abundant, reaching from everyday situations like ﬁxing a time for a meeting to global problems like climate change agreements. Often such situations can be described...

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Tax morale and optimal taxation : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Behavioral Public Economics, July 2004

Güth, Werner; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2004

We study experimentally how taxpayers choose between two tax regimes to fund a public good. The first-best tax regime imposes a general, distortion-free income tax. However, this tax cannot be enforced. The second-best alternative supplements the income tax by a specific commodity tax. This tax...

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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 - 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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Procedurally fair collective provision : its requirements and experimental functionality

Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Koukoumelis, Anastasios; … - 2013

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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Moral property rights in bargaining

Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2002

In many business transactions, in labor-management relations, in international conflicts, and welfare state reforms claims acquired in the past seem to create strong entitlements that shape current negotiations. Despite their importance, the role of entitlements in negotiations has not received...

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