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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 …
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An ultimatum game with multidimensional response strategies
Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Nardi, Chiara; … - 2014
We enrich the choice task of responders in ultimatum games by allowing them to independently decide whether to collect what is offered to them and whether to destroy what the proposer demanded. Such a multidimensional response format intends to cast further light on the motives guiding responder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395127
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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?
Regner, Tobias - 2016
We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576929
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881706
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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness : gender-task stereotypes
Große, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - 2010
able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment …-sex groups given different incentive schemes. Furthermore, we report the results of a framed field experiment, where we explore a … our interpretation. -- Competition, piece rate ; revenue sharing ; gender-task stereotype ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944236
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The power of close relationships and audiences : interpersonal closeness and payment observability as determinants of voluntary payments
Hofmann, Elisa - 2020
Individual decision-making in Pay-What-You-Want settings is prone to social influence. Es pecially payment observability and the social relationship with other buyers during the payment decision are two important components of social influence. In practical applications of Pay-What-You-Want both...
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On whom would I want to depend; Humans or nature?
Farjam, Mike - 2015
We study in an experiment whether humans prefer to depend on decisions of other humans (social uncertainty) or states … other humans. This is the first experiment that studies social uncertainty that does not derive from a strategic situation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392605
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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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Short- and long-run effects of external interventions on trust
Asanov, Igor A.; Vannuccini, Simone - 2015
of the experiment indicate that targeting is an effective instrument to promote trustful behavior, whereas subsidy policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339172
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Preferences-dependent learning in the Centipede game
Gamba, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015
We study experimentally whether heterogeneity of behavior in the Centipede game can be interpreted as the result of a learning process of individuals with different preference types (more and less pro-social) and coarse information regarding the opponent's past behavior. We manipulate the...
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