Similar Search Results

The roles of incentives and voluntary cooperation for contractual compliance

Gächter, Simon; Kessler, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2011

voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277487

Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444291

On the elicitation and measurement of betrayal aversion

Quercia, Simone - 2015

Betrayal aversion has been operationalized as the evidence that subjects demand a higher risk premium to take social risks compared to natural risks. This evidence has been first shown by Bohnet and Zeckhauser (2004) using an adaptation of the Becker-DeGroot-Marshak mechanism (BDM, Becker et al....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444302

The donor problem

Abbink, Klaus; Ellman, Matthew - 2004

Donors often rely on local intermediaries to deliver benefits to target beneficiaries. Each selected recipient observes if the intermediary under-delivers to them, so they serve as natural monitors. However, they may withhold complaints when feeling unentitled or grateful to the intermediary for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290536

Fair share and social efficiency: A mechanism in which peers decide on the payoff division

Dong, Lu; Falvey, Rod; Luckraz, Shravan - 2016

We propose and experimentally test a mechanism for a class of principal-agent problems in which agents can observe each others' efforts. In this mechanism each player costlessly assigns a share of the pie to each of the other players, after observing their contributions, and the final...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688535

Complicity without connection or communication

Barr, Abigail; Michailidou, Georgia - 2016

We use a novel experiment to investigate whether people aim to coordinate when, to do so, they have to lie; and are more willing to lie when, in doing so, they are aiming to coordinate with a potential accomplice, i.e., another with whom coordination would be beneficial and who is facing the same...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688539

Talking behind your back: Asymmetric communication in a three-person dilemma

Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - 2018

Communication has been regarded as one of the most effective devices in promoting team cooperation. But asymmetric communication sometimes breeds collusion and is detrimental to team efficiency. Here, we present experimental evidence showing that excluding one member from team communication...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029789

Conducting interactive experiments online

Arechar, Antonio A.; Gächter, Simon; Molleman, Lucas - 2017

Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online … methodological discussion of the similarities and differences between interactive experiments conducted in the laboratory and online … online. The most important challenge of online interactive experiments is participant dropout. We discuss measures for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029795

Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey; … - 2010

We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The first two groups were...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277477

Inter-group conflict and intra-group punishment in an experimental contest game

Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2009

public goods experiments where punishment enhances efficiency. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277486