Similar Search Results

Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition

Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017

This paper investigates the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-person real-effort competition (Gill and Prowse, 2012). "Social" and "asocial" versions of the Gill and Prowse experiment are compared, where the latter treatment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029800

Affirmative action and team performance

Kölle, Felix - 2016

We experimentally investigate spillover effects of affirmative action policies on team performance and the willingness to work in teams. We find that such policies in form of gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation within teams, and do not discourage selection into teams.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688532

Deviant or wrong? The effects of norm information on the efficacy of punishment

Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2017

A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to suboptimal social outcomes. In such studies, the enforcement of a behavioral rule to cooperate originates from a single party. This feature may raise concern about the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029776

Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion

Cubitt, Robin; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015

We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444288

Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446176

Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?

Regner, Tobias - 2016

We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576929

Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018

Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881706

Belief formation in a signalling game without common prior: An experiment

Possajennikov, Alex - 2012

Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in … which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the … strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often start with diffuse uniform beliefs and update them in view of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392407

Overweighting private information : three measures, one bias?

Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - 2010

Overweighting private information is often used to explain various detrimental decisions. In behavioral economics and finance, it is usually modeled as a direct consequence of misperceiving signal reliability. This bias is typically dubbed overconfidence and linked to the judgment literature in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669956

Imperfect recall and time inconsistencies : an experimental test of the absentminded driver “paradox”

Levati, M. Vittoria; Uhl, Matthias; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010

Absentmindedness is a special case of imperfect recall which according to Piccione and Rubinstein (1997a) leads to time inconsistencies. Aumann, Hart and Perry (1997a) question their argument and show how dynamic inconsistencies can be resolved. The present paper explores this issue from a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003980493

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last