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We define and experimentally test a public provision mechanism that meets three basic ethical requirements and allows community members to influence, via monetary bids, which of several projects is implemented. For each project, participants are assigned personal values, which can be positive or...
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We define and experimentally test a public provision mechanism that meets three basic ethical requirements and allows community members to influence, via monetary bids, which of several projects is implemented. For each project, participants are assigned personal values, which can be positive or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540349
) is added in order to introduce reciprocity. We find significantly higher rates of selfish choices in our treatments that …
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discrimination enhances efficiency as it facilitates coordination among agents. The only evidence for reciprocity is that subjects …
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discrimination enhances efficiency as it facilitates coordination among agents. The only evidence for reciprocity is that subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464021
experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation … reciprocity. Among our subjects, 40% of the reciprocators exploited moral wiggle room. …
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How malleable are people´s fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent people´s allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether people´s fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation …
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equal treatment of agents. Discrimination is, thus, a consequence of reciprocity. Agents that are discriminated against …
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One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...
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equal treatment of agents. Discrimination is, thus, a consequence of reciprocity. Agents that are discriminated against …
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