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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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Strong, bold, and kind : self-control and cooperation in social dilemmas

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R. - 2013

We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...

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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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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...

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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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Efficient coordination in weakest-link games

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2011

efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient freedom to choose their interaction neighborhood. We conduct experiments with …

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