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On the channels of pro-social behavior evidence from a natural field experiment
Koppel, Hannes; Schulze, Günther G. - 2009
We conduct a natural field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms for small donations. Charitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267120
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On the Channels of Pro-Social Behavior Evidence from a natural field experiment
Koppel, Hannes; Schulze, Günther G. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We conduct a natural field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms for small donations. Charitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008473489
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The Interaction between Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Capital: More Evidence in Support of Camerer and Hogarth (1999)
Rydval, Ondřej - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007
This paper extends existing evidence on the interaction between financial incentives and cognitive capital. I focus on … situated in an accounting setting, I show that both financial incentives and task-specific cognitive capital, and especially … stronger under performance-based financial incentives as compared to flatrate incentives. The interaction effect arises because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866583
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Envy and Altruism in Children
Häger, Kirsten - 2010
Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and … treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the other one studies altruism. Additionally, we collect data on the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281627
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The Effect of Financial Incentives and Task-specific Cognitive Abilities on Task Performance
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We extend evidence on the interaction between financial incentives and cognitive abilities by focusing on the effect of … on performance is stronger under financial incentives as compared to flat rate pay. Subjects with more accounting … education respond stronger to financial incentives. Hence using incentives efficiently may involve targeting them at high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358647
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The effect of financial incentives and task-specific cognitive abilities on task performance
Rydval, Ondérej - 2011
We extend evidence on the interaction between financial incentives and cognitive abilities by focusing on the effect of … on performance is stronger under financial incentives as compared to flat rate pay. Subjects with more accounting … education respond stronger to financial incentives. Hence using incentives efficiently may involve targeting them at high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286455
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Full agreement and the provision of threshold public goods
Alberti, Federica; Cartwright, Edward J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We report threshold public good experiments in which group members not only need to be individually willing to contribute enough to provide the public good but also have to agree with each other on what every group members should contribute. We find strong support to the hypothesis that full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391902
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Is Regulation by Milestones Efficiency Enhancing? - An Experimental Study of Environmental Protection -
Freytag, Andreas; Güth, Werner; Koppel, Hannes; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Viewing individual contributions as investments in emission reduction we rely on the familiar linear public goods- game to set global reduction targets which, if missed, imply that all payoffs are destroyed with a certain probability. Regulation by milestones does not only impose a final...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751288
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Provision of Multilevel Public Goods through Positive Externalities: Experimental Evidence
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884475
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The provision of public goods with positive group interdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267122