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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013

mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …

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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884174

The Effect of Self-Awareness and Competition on Dishonesty

Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021

We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the impact on behaviour in tasks that include...

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Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair

Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we … study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, we analyze how equal wages affect … rather driven by the fact that reciprocity is violated far more frequently in the equal wage treatment. Agents suffering from …

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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015

A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...

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Cooperation hidden frontiers : the behavioral foundations of the Italian North-South divide

Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Casari, Marco; … - 2013

Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that successful regions are characterized by higher levels of trust, and, more...

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Money is more than memory

Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2015

Impersonal exchange is the hallmark of an advanced society and money is one key institution that supports it. Economic theory regards money as a crude arrangement for monitoring counterparts' past conduct. If so, then a public record of past actions - memory - should supersede the function...

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The limits of self-governance in the presence of spite: experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2006

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge urban-rural gap. In contrast to previous experiments we find no …

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The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...

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