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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018

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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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

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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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?

Regner, Tobias - 2016

) is added in order to introduce reciprocity. We find significantly higher rates of selfish choices in our treatments that …

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What drives motivated agents? : the "right" mission or sharing it with the principal

Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015

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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Hidden costs of control : three repetitions and an extension

Ploner, Matteo; Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2010

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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Charitable giving among females and males : an empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis

Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - 2012

giving ; social-image concerns ; competitive altruism ; experiments ; social status …

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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

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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Revealed notions of distributive justice I : theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 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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More than outcomes : the role of self-image in other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2014

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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