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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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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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Unravelling conditional cooperation : reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision

Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - 2011

cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three motives - namely reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring - in … a non-linear voluntary contribution experiment. We find that, for those conditionally cooperating, both reciprocity and … reciprocity. In contrast, anchoring plays only a marginal role. Compared to what previously found in linear voluntary contribution …

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Intentions and consequences : an experimental investigation of trust and reciprocity determinants

Güth, Werner; Mugera, Harriet; Musau, Andrew; Ploner, … - 2012

We experimentally manipulate the efficiency of trust and reciprocity in a modified Investment Game. The aim of our … manipulation is to test whether reciprocity is mainly affected by payoff consequences of trust or by intentions underlying it. We … efficiency of trust as well as by efficiency of reciprocity. However, trustors do not fully exploit the high efficiency gains …

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More than outcomes : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2011

-regarding behavior ; self-image ; experiments ; cognitive dissonance ; social norms ; normative beliefs ; expectations …

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Motivational cherry picking

Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2011

We construct a simple three person trust game with one trustor and two trustees. The trustor has the possibility to either trust both trustees or none, while the trustees make their decisions either sequentially or simultaneously, depending on the treatment. When trustees play sequentially,...

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Would you mind if I get more? : an experimental study of the envy game

Casal, Sandro; Güth, Werner; Jia, Mofei; Ploner, Matteo - 2011

Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the size of the pie to be shared with a responder, whose share...

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On the malleability of fairness ideals : order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks

Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015

in similar allocation experiments before. We find that participants are more likely to allocate more resources to …

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