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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice I: Theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games … planner" experiments or experiments under a "veil of ignorance" (Rawls 1971) can be used to recover larger parts of the notion … necessarily incentive-compatible, and to recover a greater part of an individual's preference relation in dictator experiments …

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II: Experimental Evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … experiments by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. Most participants conform very well with the …

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Out-of equilibrium bids in auctions: wrong expectations or wrong bids

Kirchkamp, Oliver; Reiss, J. Philipp - 2008

Deviations from equilibrium bids in auctions can be related to inconsistent expectations with correct best replies (see Eyster and Rabin, 2005; Crawford and Iriberri, 2007) or correct expectations but small (perhaps quantal-response) mistakes in best replies (see Goeree et al., 2002). To distinguish...

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Bidding in common value fair division games: The winner's curse or even worse?

Becker, Alice; Brünner, Tobias - 2009

A unique indivisible commodity with an unknown common value is owned by group of individuals and should be allocated to one of them while compensating the others monetarily. We study the so-called fair division game (Güth, Ivanova-Stenzel, Königstein, and Strobel (2002, 2005)) theoretically...

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Unraveling fairness in simple games? The role of empathy and theory of mind

Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Koppel, Hannes; … - 2010

Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...

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Social preferences under uncertainty

Gaudeul, Alexia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

's position vis-`a-vis others. Taking a bet can improve one's position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment …

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Unraveling Fairness in Simple Games? The Role of Empathy and Theory of Mind

Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Fillipos; Sääksvuori, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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Contests with incumbency advantages: An experiment investigation of the effect of limits on spending behavior and outcome

Otsubo, Hironori - 2012

This paper experimentally investigates the effect of limits on campaign spending and outcome in an electoral contest where two candidates, an incumbent and a challenger, compete for office in terms of the amount of campaign expenditure. The candidates are asymmetric only in that the incumbent...

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Less fighting than expected: experiments with wars of attrition and all-pay auctions

Hoerisch, Hannah; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2007

We use experiments to compare dynamic and static wars of attrition (i.e. second-price all-pay auctions) and first …

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Do prices in the unmediated call auction reflect insider information?: an experimental analysis

Brünner, Tobias; Levínský, René - 2008

transaction costs. The experiment provides a good environment to assess the usefulness of this method to estimate transaction …

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