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Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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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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Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...
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We report three repetitions of Falk and Kosfeld's (2006) C5 and C10 treatments whose results largely conflict with those of the original study. We mainly observe hidden costs of control of low magnitude which lead to low-trust principal-agent relationships. We also report an extension where...
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giving ; social-image concerns ; competitive altruism ; experiments ; social status …
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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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