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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308480
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Voluntary contributions to the establishment and operation of public goods : theory and experimental evidence
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - 2014
experiments with religious Jewish students for the procurement of sustainable supplies for their campus synagogues and ongoing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413626
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To what do people contribute? : ongoing operations vs. sustainable supplies
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - 2019
Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985963
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Does decentralization of decisions increase the stability of large groups?
Bjedov, Tjaša; Lapointe, Simon; Madiès, Thierry; … - 2018
Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803271
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Click'n'roll : no evidence of illusion of control
Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - 2015
Evidence of Illusion of Control - the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events - is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to no support. In this paper we test whether this dissonant result across disciplines is due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517137
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Measuring the willingness to pay to avoid guilt : estimation using equilibrium and stated belief models
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander; Strobel, Martin - 2010
controlling for a possible source of a consensus effect. All models are estimated using data from an experiment of proposal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941997
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Randomizing endowments : an experimental study of rational expectations and reference-dependent preferences
Götte, Lorenz; Harms, Annette; Sprenger, Charles - 2014
expectations. We examine the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006) in the context of market experiments with probabilistic forced … exchange. The experiment tightly tests the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), as when the probability of forced exchange … these theoretical predictions. In a series of experiments with a total of 930 subjects, sellers' valuations exceed buyers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436164
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Alternative models of preference heterogeneity for elicited choice probabilities
Kettlewell, Nathan; Walker, Matthew J.; Hong il Yoo - 2024
Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) often present concise choice scenarios that may appear incomplete to respondents. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494033
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418877
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Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods
Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022
and online experiments (n=2,584), we document a robust asymmetry in preferences and perceptions in two incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209845