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The stability of conditional cooperation: Egoism trumps reciprocity in social dilemmas

Andreozzi, Luciano; Ploner, Matteo; Saral, Ali Seyhun - 2019

An often-replicated result in the experimental literature on social dilemmas is that a large share of subjects reveal conditionally cooperative preferences. Cooperation generated by this type of preferences is notoriously unstable, as individuals reduce their contributions to the public good in...

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Diagnostic uncertainty and insurance coverage in credence goods markets

Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2020

Credence goods markets - like for health care or repair services - with their informational asymmetries between sellers and customers are prone to fraudulent behavior of sellers and resulting market inefficiencies. We present the first model that considers both diagnostic uncertainty of sellers...

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The fairness of inequality due to risk and effort choices

Sterba, Maj-Britt - 2022

. The fairness people assign to inequalities due to effort and external circumstances is widely studied. Insights on the … fairness of inequalities due to self-chosen effort and self-chosen risk, however, are lacking. I study a novel experimental … inequality is mostly seen as fair, around 10% of third-party redistribution decisions are in line with a fairness norm that only …

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Manna from heaven for judges: Judges' reaction to a quasi-random reduction in caseload

Engel, Christoph; Weinshall, Keren - 2020

What is the impact of caseload on judicial decision-making? Is increasing judicial staff effective in improving judicial services? To address these questions, we exploit a natural, near-randomized experiment in the Israeli judiciary. In 2012, six senior registrars were appointed in two of the...

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The differential effect of narratives

Hillenbrand, Adrian; Verrina, Eugenio - 2018

Narratives pervade almost any aspect of our life and play a particularly important role in moral and prosocial decision-making. We study how positive (stories in favor of a prosocial action) and negative (stories in favor of a selfish action) narratives influence prosocial behavior. Our main...

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Estimating heterogeneous reactions to experimental treatments

Engel, Christoph - 2019

Frequently in experiments there is not only variance in the reaction of participants to treatment. The heterogeneity is patterned: discernible types of participants react differently. In principle, a finite mixture model is well suited to simultaneously estimate the probability that a given...

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Tax morale and fairness in conflict: An experiment

Engel, Christoph; Mittone, Luigi; Morreale, Azzurra - 2019

Arguably, for many citizens the perceived expected disutility from sanctions is smaller than the monetary gain from tax evasion. Nevertheless most people pay their taxes most of the time. In a lab experiment, we show that the willingness to pay taxes even absent enforcement is indeed pronounced....

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Normative perception of power abuse

Hoeft, Leonard; Mill, Wladislaw; Vostroknutov, Alexander - 2019

We study how the powerful perceive power abuse, and how negative experience related to it influences the appropriateness judgments of the powerless. We create an environment conducive to unfair exploitation in a repeated Public Goods game where one player (punisher) is given a further ability to...

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An experimental study on the effects of communication, credibility, and clustering in network gamess

Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, … - 2019

The effectiveness of social interaction depends strongly on an ability to coordinate actions efficiently. In large networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network structure. We examine how pre-play communication and...

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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

Tournament incentives prevail in labor markets. Yet, the number of tournament winners is often unclear to competitors. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a...

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