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This paper studies the effect of endogenous group formation on the outcome in two types of coordination games with multiple Pareto-ranked equilibria. Endogenous group formation means that in each period players are free to choose among two or more groups within which they want to play the...
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experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals …
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This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the … determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields …
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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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the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …
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behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm … one of the key insights from theory: effort and sabotage increase with the wage spread. Additionally, we find that even in …
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customers. While standard theory predicts that inefficiencies disappear if customers can verify the quality received … as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
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We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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