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Nudging cooperation
Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - 2018
This paper experimentally studies two simple interventions aimed at increasing public goods provision in settings in which accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to exploit lying aversion by requiring subjects to send a non-verifiable ex post...
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Cognitive ability and perceived disagreement in learning
Evdokimov, Piotr; Garfagnini, Umberto - 2023
disagreement regardless of cognitive ability. Learning about the state of the world has little effect on the evolution of perceived …Do agents believe to be agreeing more with others in the long-run? This paper designs an experiment to study how …
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Managerial payoff and gift-exchange in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2019
We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker …
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You owe me
Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017
In business and politics, gifts are often aimed at influencing the recipient at the expense of third parties. In an experimental study, which removes informational and incentive confounds, subjects strongly respond to small gifts even though they understand the gift giver’s intention. Our...
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017
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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Are happier people less judgmental of other People's selfish behaviors? : laboratory evidence from trust and gift exchange games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2013
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Ignorance, intention and stochastic outcomes
Friedrichsen, Jana; Momsen, Katharina; Piasenti, Stefano - 2022
the principal when deciding on a reciprocating action. We employ a controlled experiment to investigate how intentions and …
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Expectations of reciprocity when competitors share information : experimental evidence
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Holcomb, Alex; Myung, Noah - 2019
's expectation of reciprocity shown to be a key determinant. We use an indeterminate horizon centipede game to establish a feedback …
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Cross-game learning and cognitive ability in auctions
Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kocher, Martin; … - 2022
ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account …-game learning for cognitively less able participants but does not affect overbidding for the cognitively more able. Vice versa …, 'cross-game learning' may rather be understood as 'cross-game transfer', as it has the potential to benefit bidders with …
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Active learning improves financial education : experimental evidence
Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2018
We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small …-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We … find that active learning has a positive and economically meaningful impact on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast …
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