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Expected prices as reference points : theory and experiments
Wenner, Lukas - 2014
have a salient market price or no market price outside of the experiment. …
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Everyone likes to be liked : experimental evidence from matching markets
Opitz, Timm; Schwaiger, Christoph - 2023
them. Through a pre-registered and theory-guided laboratory experiment, we provide evidence that such reciprocal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476792
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Complexity and distributive fairness interact in affecting compliance behavior
Bellemare, Charles; Deversi, Marvin; Englmaier, Florian - 2019
obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118468
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Fairness in markets and market experiments
Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018
and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates … to preferences for fair trade products before and after the market experiment. We find that the willingness to buy at a … laboratory experiment and with whether the participants are willing to pay a positive fair trade premium, elicited at the end of …
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Inducing cooperation with emotion - who is affected?
Gärtner, Manja; Tinghög, Gustav; Västfjäll, Daniel - 2020
on cooperative behavior. In a survey experiment with a representative sample of the Swedish population (N = 1,828), we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237149
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals have to complete a cumbersome task of unknown length. They are exposed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487122
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Have preferences become more similar worldwide?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2023
Recent evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in time, risk, and social preferences across and within populations; yet little is known about the dynamics of preference heterogeneity across generations. We apply a novel identification strategy based on dyadic differences in preferences using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495141
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A note on empathy in games
Grohn, Jan; Huck, Steffen; Valasek, Justin Mattias - 2014
In this note we shall discuss a concept that - despite its prominence in both Hume (1739) and Smith (1759), its obvious relevance for social behavior, and its not so infrequent use in colloquial language - has never gained a foothold in economic theory: the concept of empathy. Specifically, we...
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School choice and loss aversion
Meisner, Vincent; Wangenheim, Jonas von - 2019
Extensive evidence suggests that participants in the direct student-proposing deferred-acceptance mechanism (DSPDA) play dominated strategies. In particular, students with low priority tend to misrepresent their preferences for popular schools. To explain the observed data, we introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138798
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The endowment effect in the general population
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea - 2022
We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...
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