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Ex-Ante vs. Ex-Post Efficiencyin Personal Bankruptcy Proceedings

Steiger, Eva-Maria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

Amidst a sharp increase in household debt levels, many countries have substantially reformedtheir consumer bankruptcy regulations. I first classify the mechanisms triggered by current U.S.and European bankruptcy regulations and then evaluate these mechanisms within a hidden actionmodel. I...

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I will survive! Gender discrimination in a household saving decisions experiment

Büchner, Susanne; Dittrich, Dennis A. V. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

We investigate the gender specific inter-temporal allocation behavior ofspouses with different deterministic life expectations in an experimentwhere the gender of one's partner is known. In each period of theirlife both partners propose a consumption level one of which is thenrandomly...

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Interpersonal allocation behavior in a household savings experiment

Anderhub, Vital; Dittrich, Dennis; Güth, Werner; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

We investigate the intertemporal and interpersonal allocation behavior ofspouses with different deterministic life expectations in an experiment. In eachperiod of their life both partners propose a consumption level one of which isthen randomly implemented. In spite of the complex dynamics...

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Interview sequences and the formation of subjective assessments

Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2024

Interviewing is a decisive stage of most processes that match candidates to firms and organizations. This paper studies how and why a candidate's interview outcome depends on the other candidates interviewed by the same evaluator. We use large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring...

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Image Concerns and the Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods

König, Tobias; Lausen, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2017

Governments often provide their citizens with goods and services that are also supplied in markets: education, housing, nutritional assistance, etc. We analyze the political economy of the public provision of private goods when individuals care about their social image. We show that image...

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A behavioral theory of equilibrium selection

Bolle, Friedel - 2017

Theories about unique equilibrium selection are often rejected in experimental investigations. We drop the idea of selecting a single prominent equilibrium but suggest the coexistence of different beliefs about "appropriate" equilibrium or non-equilibrium play. Our main selection criterion is...

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Experimental investigations of binary threshold public good games

Spiller, Jörg; Bolle, Friedel - 2017

In Binary Threshold Public Good (BTPG) games n players contribute or not to the production of a public good which is produced if and only if there are at least k contributors. The BTPG games with the highest (k=n) and the lowest (k=1) threshold are the Stag Hunt game and the Volunteer's Dilemma....

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Side-Effects of campaign finance reform

Dahm, Matthias; Porteiro, Nicolás - 2005

relevant information, we also assume that lobbies engage in non-negligible informational lobbying. We focus on a single … lobbying so that less policy relevant information is available and as a result political decisions become less efficient. …

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Informational lobbying under the shadow of political pressure

Dahm, Matthias; Porteiro, Nicolás - 2005

We examine the incentives of an interest group to provide verifiable policy-relevant information to a political … information provision is a risky attempt to affect the politician's beliefs about the desirability of the lobby's objective. The … approach gives a novel explanation for the fact that interest groups often try to provide information credibly. We identify …

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Voting in small networks with cross-pressure

Andina-Díaz, Ascensión; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2006

We present a model of participation in elections in small networks, in which citizens suþer from cross-pressures if voting against the alternative preferred by some of their social contacts. We analyze how the existence of cross-pressures may shape voting decisions, and so, political outcomes;...

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