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Preferences for redistribution and pensions : what can we learn from experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved? -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …

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Efficient coordination in weakest-link games

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2011

efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient freedom to choose their interaction neighborhood. We conduct experiments with …

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Tax evasion, welfare fraud, and "the broken windows" effect : an experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - 2011

In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare … comparisons ; cross-country comparisons ; experiments …

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Investment and Bargaining in Joint Ventures: A Family Decision Making Experiment

Güth, Werner; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Sutter, Matthias - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 159 (2003) 2, pp. 323-323

Bilateral joint ventures, such as marriage, are economically inspired by their prospects of labor division and specialization. However, specialization makes the partnerwho investsmore in relation-specificqualificationsmore exploitable (holdup problem). In a two-person experiment we study...

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Gender differences in performance under competition: is there a stereotype threat shadow?

Geraldes, Diogo; Riedl, Arno; Strobel, Martin - 2020

use laboratory experiments to study the potential role of stereotype threat on the response of men and women to …

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The impact of the menstrual cycle on bargaining behavior

Lozano, Lina; Riedl, Arno; Rott, Christina - 2024

We investigate experimentally how the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and bargaining outcomes of women. Female participants negotiate in an unstructured bilateral bargaining game with asymmetric information about the allocation of a surplus ('pie size'). We find that the menstrual...

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Voluntary versus Compulsory Solidarity: Theory and Experiment

Güth, Werner; Sutter, Matthias; Verbon, Harrie - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 162 (2006) 2, pp. 347-363

We present an overlapping-generations model with two interacting teams, where young team members earn an income, whereas old team members depend on either intrateam transfers from young members (voluntary solidarity) or tax-financed transfers (compulsory solidarity). We derive the individually...

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Information, uncertainty, and subjective entitlements in bargaining

Karagözoğlu, Emin; Riedl, Arno - 2010

information ; randomness in production process ; entitlements ; experiments …

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Rules (of Bidding) to Generate Equal Stated Profits: An Axiomatic Approach

Güth, Werner - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 167 (2011) 4, pp. 608-612

Although one may hope to achieve equality of stated profits without enforcing it, one may not trust in such voluntary equality seeking and rather try to impose rules (of bidding) guaranteeing it. Our axiomatic approach is based on envy-free net trades according to bids, which, together with the...

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Spillover effects of institutions on cooperative behavior, preferences and beliefs

Englmaier, Florian; Riedl, Arno; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017

Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior...

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