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What money can buy : how market exchange promotes values

Weber, Roberto A.; Zhang, Sili - 2023

We study consumers' concerns for the ideological values of their market counterparts and the implications of such concerns for the public promotion of values. Using a survey and online and laboratory experiments, we find that consumers are willing to pay premiums to exchange with counterparts...

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Chinese aid and democratic values in Latin America

Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022

democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …

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Institutional transplant and cultural proximity : evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia

Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura - 2015 - This version: November 2015

the quasi-natural experiment generated by the radical Napoleonic institutional reforms and the deeply rooted cultural … stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …

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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

subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we …

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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021

We report experimental ﬁndings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...

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The causal effect of cultural identity on cooperation

Butler, Jeffrey; Fehr, Dietmar - 2021

The impact of culture on non-kin cooperation has been singled out as critical for economic activity. However, causal … evidence of culture's influence on cooperation remains scant. In this paper we provide such evidence, focusing on two key … components of culture: preferences and beliefs. Adopting the view that culture is one aspect of an individual's multi …

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Negotiating to avoid "gradual" versus "dangerous" climate change : an experimental test of two prisoners' dilemmas

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014

According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...

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On the sensitivity of collective action to uncertainty about climate tipping points

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014

Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate "tipping point", is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests that...

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To commit or not to commit? : an experimental investigation of pre-commitments in bargaining situations with asymmetric information

Hoffmann, Sönke; Mihm, Benedikt; Weimann, Joachim - 2014

their contribution costs. We test the model in a laboratory experiment paying particular attention to how behavioral …

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Bargaining with a residual claimant : an experimental study

Embrey, Matthew; Hyndman, Kyle; Riedl, Arno - 2014

We experimentally investigate a bargaining environment in which players negotiate over a fixed payment to one player, while the other player receives the residual from a random pie realization after subtracting the fixed payment. Contrary to the intuition that risk exposure is detrimental, we...

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