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Compliance dynamics generated by social interaction rules
Lipatov, Vilen - 2014
We study compliance dynamics generated by a large set of behavioral rules describing social interaction in a population of agents facing an enforcement authority. When the authority adjusts the auditing probability every period, cycling in cheating-auditing occurs: Intensive monitoring induces...
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How do people react to income-based fines? : evidence from speeding tickets discontinuities
Kaila, Martti - 2024
speeding ticket. Contrary to predictions of a traditional Becker model, individuals do not bunch below the fine hike. Instead … illustrate this, I construct a Becker model with misperception and learning that can explain all the empirical findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517923
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Deterrence through word of mouth
Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - 2009
The deterrent effect of law enforcement rests on the link between the actual and the perceived detection risk. We study the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees allowing us to distinguish between households who have been...
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Deception under time pressure : conscious decision or a problem of awareness?
Konrad, Kai A.; Lohse, Tim; Simon, Sven A. - 2017
Time is a crucial determinant of deception, since some misreporting opportunities come as a surprise and require an intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a subject must be aware of the misreporting opportunity....
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Whistle-blower protection : theory and experimental evidence
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...
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Learning about one's self
Le Yaouanq, Yves; Schwardmann, Peter - 2019
the nature of the task at the second date further shows that learning is unencumbered by a change in environment. Our …
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The economics of attention
Loewenstein, George F.; Wojtowicz, Zachary - 2023
Attention is a pivotal resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain numerous documented violations of classical...
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Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs
Millner, Antony; Ollivier, Hélène; Simon, Leo K. - 2014
endogenously influence whether learning occurs through its policy choices (policy experimentation), future political competition …
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Adaptive social learning
March, Christoph - 2016
The paper investigates social-learning when the information structure is not commonly known. Individuals repeatedly … interact in social-learning settings with distinct information structures. In each round of interaction, they use their … behavior in the long-run if and only if individuals distinguish social-learning settings and receive rich feedback after each …
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Altruistic observational learning
March, Christoph; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2016
We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning … opportunities to learn about the strategies played by observed which amplifies the impact of altruism on observational learning. …
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