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Religion and trust: an experimental study
Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Vogel, Claudia - 2005
We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behaviour in a trust game (Berg et al., Games and Economic Behaviour, 1995), which...
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...
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How Do Sellers Benefit From Buy-It-Now Prices in Ebay Auctions? -- an Experimental Investigation
Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2018
In Buy-It-Now (BIN, hereafter) auctions, sellers can make a \"take-it-or-leave-it\" price offer (BIN price) prior to an auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that...
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Cross-game Learning and Cognitive Ability in Auctions
Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kocher, Martin G. - 2022
Overbidding in sealed-bid second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we...
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The Lifecycle of Affirmative Action Policies and Its Effect on Effort and Sabotage Behavior
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, … - 2023
disadvantaged group or handicap for the privileged group, affect behavior. We examine these questions in a laboratory experiment in …
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Experimental evidence of the importance of gender pairing in bargaining
Sutter, Matthias; Bosman, Ronald; Kocher, Martin; van … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We study the influence of gender on economic decision making in a two-person bargaining game. By testing hypotheses derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically affects...
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Sabotage in Tournaments:Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in acontrolled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …
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Punishment with Uncertain Outcomesin the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Dürsch, Peter; Servátka, Maroš - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2009
This paper experimentally investigates whether risk-averseindividuals punish less if the outcome of punishment is uncertain thanwhen it is certain. Our design includes three treatments: Baseline inwhich the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game is played; CertainPunishment in which the prisoner’s...
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Imitation - Theory and Experimental Evidence
Apesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Jörg - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2005
We introduce a generalized theoretical approach to study imitation andsubject it to rigorous experimental testing. In … our theoretical analysiswe …nd that the different predictions of previous imitation models aredue to different … experiment we test the different theories by systematicallyvarying information conditions. We fi…nd signi…ficant effects of …
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Crowding out and imitation behavior in the solidarity game
Vogel, Claudia; Heimel, Jana; Bolle, Friedel - 2004
In the Solidarity Game (Selten and Ockenfels, 1998), two "rich" persons can support a "poor" one. A strong positive correlation between one rich person's solidarity contribution and his expected contribution of the other is observed. This paper investigates the causality behind this correlation....
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