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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...
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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?
Regner, Tobias - 2016
) is added in order to introduce reciprocity. We find significantly higher rates of selfish choices in our treatments that …
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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015
experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation … reciprocity. Among our subjects, 40% of the reciprocators exploited moral wiggle room. …
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Other-regarding behaviour : testing guilt- and reciprocity-based models
Regner, Tobias; Harth, Nicole S. - 2010
and reciprocity). In addition to incentivised elicitation of first- and second-order action beliefs, we assess … intentions-based models. Both second-order beliefs and the weighting factor that depends on a participant's sensitivity to guilt/reciprocity … returned. -- social preferences ; other-regarding behaviour ; experiments ; trust game ; guilt aversion ; beliefs …
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What drives fraud in a credence goods market? : evidence from a field study
Rasch, Alexander; Waibel, Christian - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of four key economic variables on an expert firm's incentive to defraud its customers in a credence goods market: the level of competition, the expert firm's financial situation, its competence, and its reputational concerns. We use and complement the dataset...
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Corporate social responsibility in the work place : experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2011
We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant, CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. We are testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits...
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Motivational cherry picking
Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2012
We construct a simple three person trust game with one trustor and two trustees. The trustor has the possibility to either trust both trustees or none, while the trustees make their decisions either sequentially or simultaneously, depending on the treatment. When trustees play sequentially,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627384
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Motivational cherry picking
Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2011
We construct a simple three person trust game with one trustor and two trustees. The trustor has the possibility to either trust both trustees or none, while the trustees make their decisions either sequentially or simultaneously, depending on the treatment. When trustees play sequentially,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230369
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Looking at the bright side : the motivation value of overconfidence
Chen, Si; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2018
The motivation value of confidence postulates that individual effort provision is increasing in beliefs on one's own productivity. This relationship also holds for overconfident individuals who have exaggerated productivity beliefs (motivation value of overconfidence). We present first empirical...
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