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Can Transparency of Information Reduce Embezzlement? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Falco, Salvatore - 2016
theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and reducing the number of intermediaries in transfer …
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Sales Performance and Social Preferences
Essl, Andrea - 2018
We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in otherregarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....
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Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure
Castillo, Marco - 2020
When group outcomes depend on minimal effort (e.g., disease containment, work teams, or indigenous hunt success), a classic coordination problem exists. Using a well-established paradigm, we examine how a common cognitive state (insufficient sleep) impacts coordination outcomes. Our data...
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Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment
Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023
Little is known about how gamblers estimate probabilities from multiple information sources. This paper reports on a … information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency … cognitive reflection task were more Bayesian in weighting information sources when making belief assessments. While we report no …
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Economic Polarization and Antisocial Behavior : An Experiment
Bigoni, Maria - 2019
Economic inequality may fuel frustration, possibly leading to anger and antisocial behavior. We experimentally study a situation where only the rich can reduce inequality while the poor can express their discontent by destroying the wealth of a rich counterpart with whom they had no previous...
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The Effect of Media Coverage on Mass Shootings
Jetter, Michael - 2018
Can media coverage of shooters encourage future mass shootings? We explore the link between the day-to-day prime time television news coverage of shootings on ABC World News Tonight and subsequent mass shootings in the US from January 1, 2013 to June 23, 2016. To circumvent latent endogeneity...
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Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels : Identity, Emotional Cues, and the Farc
Aparicio, Juan Pablo; Jetter, Michael; Parsons, … - 2023
In the early 2000s, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy's effectiveness, leveraging game dates, kick-off times, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a...
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Famous after Death : The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends … exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play any role. In the market for books, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078015
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News Media and Crime Perceptions : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Mastrorocco, Nicola - 2018
individuals aged 50 and over, who turn out to be more exposed to television while using other sources of information less …
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Social Distance and Trust : Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
Binzel, Christine - 2013
exchanges with few information asymmetries …
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