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than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …
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rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …
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as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the …
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Holmström?s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision makers?...
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A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...
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experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … line with a reinforcement learning model, we find that subjects who won a random lottery took significantly more risk in a … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …
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Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and reducing the number of intermediaries in transfer chains can reduce embezzlement and improve the...
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evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive … option at any time to continue working or quit. To study peer effects, we randomly assign participants to work alone or have …
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