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Gender differences in honesty : groups versus individuals
Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - 2014
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under group decisions. We find more lying in male...
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Ambiguity attitudes of individuals and groups in gain and loss domains
Minnich, Aljoscha; Lange, Andreas - 2023
This study measures the differences in ambiguity attitudes of groups and individuals in the gain and loss domain. We elicit the ambiguity attitudes and ambiguity-generated insensitivity for natural temperature events. We do not find significant differences between individuals and groups in our...
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Do gender preference gaps impact policy outcomes?
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017
Many studies document systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk … degrees of risk. We also observe policy differences between male- and female-controlled groups, though these are considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761608
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Are groups more rational than individuals? : a review of interactive decision making in groups
Kugler, Tamar; Kausel, Edgar E.; Kocher, Martin - 2012
Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic...
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I lie? We lie! Why? : experimental evidence on an dishonesty shift
Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - 2016
Unethical behavior such as dishonesty, cheating and corruption occurs frequently in organizations or groups. Recent experimental evidence suggests that there is a stronger inclination to behave immorally in groups than individually. We ask if this is the case, and if so, why. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509462
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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...
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Appropriating the commons : a theoretical explanation
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …
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Imitation : theory and experimental evidence
Alpesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Joerg - 2003
We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation models and subject themodels to rigorous experimental testing. In our theoretical analysis we find that the differentpredictions of previous imitation models are due to different informational assumptions, notto different...
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Individual and collective information acquisition : an experimental study
Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2021
decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions …Many committees - juries, political task forces, etc. - spend time gathering costly information before reaching a … governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting rules affect outcomes. We also contrast static information collection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697146
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Determinants of trust : the role of personal experiences
Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2019
Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals' inclination to trust others?...
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