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Network formation and disruption : an experiment : are efficient networks too complex?

Brangewitz, Sonja; Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Endres, Angelika; … - 2017

We experimentally study the emergence of networks under a known external threat. To be more specific, we deal with the question if subjects in the role of a strategic Designer are able to form safe and efficient networks while facing a strategic Adversary who is going to attack their networks....

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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent

Erkut, Hande - 2018

Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is important to understand a large class of situations...

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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2016

A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not taken up. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points. We build a...

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Selfless ignorance : too good to be true

Moradi, Homayoon - 2018

We use a range of dictator game experiments to investigate whether people avoid information altruistically. After …

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Teams promise but do not deliver

Nielsen, Kirby; Bhattacharya, Puja; Kagel, John H.; … - 2019

Individuals and two-person teams play a hidden - action trust game with pre - play communication. We replicate previous results for individuals that non-binding promises increase cooperation rates. But this does not extend to teams. Wh ile teams make non-binding promises to cooperate at the same...

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The effect of belief elicitation game play : conference paper

Hoffmann, Timo - 2014

The assumptions that subjects hold beliefs and that the chosen actions are not altered by a proper elicitation of these … beliefs are widely used in economics. In this paper I experimentally test whether the second assumption is correct. Especially … results in a significant increase of equilibrium play. Therefore the elicitation of beliefs can affect the choices made by …

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The swing voter's curse in social networks

Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia - 2017

We study private communication in social networks prior to a majority vote on two alternative policies. Some (or all) agents receive a private imperfect signal about which policy is correct. They can, but need not, recommend a policy to their neighbors in the social network prior to the vote. We...

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Climate policy commitment devices

Dengler, Sebastian; Gerlagh, Reyer; Trautmann, Stefan T.; … - 2017

We develop a dynamic resource extraction game that mimics the global multi-generation planning problem for climate change and fossil fuel extraction. We implement the game under different conditions in the laboratory. Compared to a "libertarian" baseline condition, we find that policy...

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Voluntary industry standards : an experimental investigation of a Greek gift

Schmid, Julia - 2015

such, might be unkind. In many experiments it was shown that unkind actions which decrease the other's payoff are punished …

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Selective memory of a psychological agent

Hagenbach, Jeanne; Koessler, Frédéric - 2021

We consider a single psychological agent whose utility depends on his action, the state of the world, and the belief that he holds about that state. The agent is initially informed about the state and decides whether to memorize it, otherwise he has no recall. We model the memorization process...

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