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On the malleability of fairness ideals : order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks
Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015
How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279775
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Rules (of bidding) to generate equal stated profits : an axiomatic approach
Güth, Werner - 2010
division game. -- Auctions ; Fair Division ; Procedural fairness ; Envy-Freeness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944203
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On the context-dependency of inequality aversion : experimental evidence and a stylized model
Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - 2012
We consider three-person envy games with a proposer, a responder, and a dummy player. In this class of games, the proposer, rather than allocating a constant pie, chooses the pie size which the responder can then accept or reject while the dummy player can only refuse his own share. While the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544389
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Collectively ranking candidates : an axiomatic approach
Güth, Werner - 2011
candidates. -- social ranking ; fairness ; fair game forms ; objective equality ; mechanism ; design ; committee decision making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008991294
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Procedurally fair collective provision : its requirements and experimental functionality
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Koukoumelis, Anastasios; … - 2013
This paper derives and justifies a procedurally fair bidding mechanism and reviews experiments that apply the mechanism to public projects provision. In the experiments, not all parties benefit from provision, and the projects ́costs can be negative. The experimental results indicate that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792166
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Providing negative cost public projects under a fair mechanism : an experimental analysis
Güth, Werner; Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2013
This paper experimentally examines a procedurally fair provision mechanism allowing members of a small community to determine, via their bids, which of four alternative public projects to implement. Previous experiments with positive cost projects have demonstrated that the mechanism is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784119
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Community projects : an experimental analysis of a fair implementation process
Cicognani, Simona; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Güth, Werner; … - 2012
. -- Public Provision ; Procedural Fairness ; Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518329
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Public projects benefiting some and harming others : three experimental studies
Güth, Werner; Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2012
. Additionally, it relies on intuitive fairness and profitability requirements. Our results indicate that the provision rule is … of the most efficient project is positive. -- Public project ; Bidding behavior ; Procedural fairness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567095
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"One man's meat is another man's poison" : an experimental study of voluntarily providing public projects that raise mixed feelings
Güth, Werner; Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, Vittoria M. - 2011
the public good. -- Public project ; Bidding behavior ; Procedural fairness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238609
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Intra-household income inequality and preferences for redistribution
Haußen, Tina - 2018
We empirically analyze the relationship between income inequality and individual preferences for public redistribution, focusing on intra-household income inequality between spouses. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find that both one's own earned income and earned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809361