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Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures
Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents’ declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital – trust and...
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Two heads are less bubbly than one: team decision-making in an experimental asset market
Cheung, Stephen L.; Palan, Stefan - 2009
We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced by Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988). We find that populating such markets with teams of size two instead of individuals significantly reduces the severity of mispricing. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269599
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Two Heads Are Less Bubbly than One: Team Decision-Making in an Experimental Asset Market
Cheung, Stephen L.; Palan, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced by Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988). We find that populating such markets with teams of size two instead of individuals significantly reduces the severity of mispricing. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555360
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Anti-Social Behavior in Groups
Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Celik Katreniak, Dagmara - 2018
This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a...
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Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights
Butz, Britta; Guillén, Pablo; Harbring, Christine - 2021
We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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Friendship in a Public Good Experiment
Haan, Marco; Kooreman, Peter; Riemersma, Tineke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We conduct a public good experiment with high school teenagers. Some groups exclusively consist of students that we know to be friends. Other groups exclusively consist of students that we know not to be friends, and that are mere classmates. We find that ‘friends’ contribute more to the...
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Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy
Nese, Annamaria; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia; … - 2016
This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...
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Moral Nimby-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2018
The growing demand for plasma, especially for the manufacture of therapeutic products, prompts discussions on the merits of different procurement systems. We conducted a randomized survey experiment with a representative sample of 826 Canadian residents to assess attitudes toward legalizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873513
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435265
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959794