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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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Reflection for higher order risk preferences

Bleichrodt, Han; Bruggen, Paul van - 2018

Higher order risk preferences are important determinants of economic behaviour. We apply behavioural insights to this topic: we measure higher order risk preferences for pure gains and pure losses by controlling the reference point. We find a reflection effect not only for second order risk...

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Conservation auctions, collusion and the endowment effect

Dijk, Justin; Ansink, Erik; Soest, Daniël Pieter van - 2018

activities. We use an economic experiment to examine whether the market efficiency of conservation auctions increases or … decreases with repetition. Theory predicts that repetition facilitates collusion among sellers in procurement auctions, while …

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Persuasion, justification and the communication of social impact

Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018

debates about foreign aid or the environment. In our experiment, a "sender" receives an informative but noisy signal about the …

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Committees of experts in the lab

Renes, Sander; Visser, Bauke - 2018

Theory predicts that committees of experts may take decisions that look good but are bad and that they show a united … assessments. We investigate this theory in the lab, using treatments with and without reputation concerns and with and without …

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Afriat in the lab

Heufer, Jan; Bruggen, Paul van - 2016

the experiment. Hence for so-called induced budget experiments the Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preference is a necessary …

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Gift exchange and the separation of ownership and control

Maximiano, Sandra; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2006 - This version: April, 2006

Numerous gift exchange experiments have found a positive relationship between employers' wage offers and workers' effort levels. In (almost) all these experiments the employer both owns and controls the firm. Yet in reality many firms are characterized by the separation of ownership and control....

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The interaction between explicit and relational incentives : an experiment

Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2009

these two variants to play. Theory predicts that subjects will choose the payoff dominated game (representing a bad explicit …

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The impact of female sex hormones on competitiveness

Buser, Thomas - 2009

laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme …

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Auctioning incentive contracts : an experimental study

Onderstal, Sander; Meerendonk, Arthur van de - 2009

-price dimensions after the auction. Both auctions theoretically implement the surplus maximizing mechanism. Our experiment confirms … theory and in the lab (after accounting for learning effects). …

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