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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...
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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
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Affirmative action and team performance
Kölle, Felix - 2016
We experimentally investigate spillover effects of affirmative action policies in tournaments on subsequent team performance and the willingness to work in teams. In three different team environments, we find that such policies in form of gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688545
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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...
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On peer effects: Contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social cohesion
Dimant, Eugen - 2017
Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of behavioral contagion, in particular with respect to differences in contagion of pro- versus anti-social behavior. Our principal contribution is the use of a novel experimental approach that enables us to analyze the contagion of behavior under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029799
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Effects of institutional history and leniency on collusive corruption and tax evasion
Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen; Mittone, Luigi - 2017
We investigate the effects of an institutional mechanism that incentivizes tax payers to blow the whistle on collusive corruption and tax compliance. We do this through a leniency program. In our experiment we nest collusive corruption within a tax evasion framework. We not only study the effect...
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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
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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
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Signaling without common prior: An experiment
Drouvelis, Michalis; Müller, Wieland; Possajennikov, Alex - 2009
common prior is induced, while for other distributions behavior is similar under both regimes. We also present a learning … show that this learning model accurately accounts for all main features of the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277488
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Confusion and reinforcement learning in experimental public goods games
Bayer, Ralph-C.; Renner, Elke; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2009
. The results show that reinforcement learning leads to dynamics similar to those observed in standard public goods games … explained by reinforcement learning. According to our estimates, learning only accounts for 41 percent of the decay in …, differ strongly from the learning dynamics, while a learning model estimated from the limited information treatment tracks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277497