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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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) is added in order to introduce reciprocity. We find significantly higher rates of selfish choices in our treatments that …
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giving ; social-image concerns ; competitive altruism ; experiments ; social status …
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. -- Information cascades ; Laboratory experiments ; Naive herding …
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This paper examines the occurrence and fragility of information cascades in laboratory experiments. One group of low … private information. In line with existing experiments on information cascades, we find some evidence that low informed …
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experiments by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. Most participants conform very well with the … therefore demonstrates that most participants' behaviour in dictator experiments can be explained by a combination of …
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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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We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...
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We revisit the economic models of social learning by assuming that individuals update their beliefs in a non-Bayesian way. Individuals either overweigh or underweigh (in Bayesian terms) their private information relative to the public information revealed by the decisions of others and each...
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learning in information cascade experiments. He concludes that participants perform poorly when learning from others and that … rejected, but we measure a much larger success of social learning. -- Information Cascades ; Laboratory Experiments ; Quantal …
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