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We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie to avoid receiving the low payoff the lower the ex-ante probability...
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We examine whether biases identified in the behavioral-economics literature apply in decision-making for others (DMfO). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks that measure the following biases: present-bias in time...
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This paper explores whether loss aversion applies to social image concerns. In a simple model, we combine loss aversion in social image concerns and attitudes towards lying. We then test its predictions in a laboratory experiment. Subjects are first ranked publicly in a social image relevant...
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We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese...
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equilibrium strategy. Exclusion has a positive impact on cooperation when it is followed by a quick rather than a slow … retaliation. Post-exclusion cooperation and forgiveness depend not only on the length of exclusion but also on the perceived …
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-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the … cooperation is lower in Morocco and Turkey than in the UK and the US. Using the ABC approach - in which cooperative attitudes and … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative …
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concept of cooperation and explore the extent to which this intervention brings about changes in people’s voluntary … contributions to the public good and self-reported emotional responses. Our findings suggest that priming cooperation increases …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods …
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