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Security of property as a public good : institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

property rights. -- property rights ; theft ; efficiency ; experiment ; socio-political factors …

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010

; voluntary contribution mechanism ; incentives ; experiment …

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The hidden costs of tax evasion : collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2015

We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts - independently of whether...

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Diagnostic uncertainty and insurance coverage in credence goods markets

Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2020

framework. We test the model's predictions in a laboratory experiment. Both in theory and in the experiment diagnostic … net effect on welfare. In the experiment, the net effect of insurance coverage on efficiency turns out to be positive. We …

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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …

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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants …

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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010

interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend. -- Competition ; gender gap ; experiment …

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Strive to be first or avoid being last : an experiment on relative performance incentives

Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2015

We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different …

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Second-degree moral hazard in a real-world credence goods market

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013

outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …

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