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Do individuals prefer to compete fairly, or unfairly with an opponent? We study individuals who can choose how to compete for one ex-post nonzero payoff. They can either nudge themselves into a fair set of rules where they have the same information and actions as their opponent, or into unfair...
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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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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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, reciprocity and compatibility. Based on firm data gathered for three different regions, Northern Hesse, Jena and Sophia Antipolis … cooperate. However, it is a main determinant of failed cooperation projects. -- Regional innovation systems ; reciprocity …
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equilibrium. we particularly focus on the reciprocity in case of complete and incomplete information about the payoff distortion … player believes that his opponent behaves with “large” reciprocity in incomplete information environment. -- Reciprocity …
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The question whether a minimum rate of sick pay should be mandated is much debated. We study the effects of this kind of intervention in an experimental labor market that is rich enough to allow for moral hazard, adverse selection, and crowding out of good intentions to occur. We find that...
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Most research in economics models agents somehow motivated by outcomes. Here, we model agents motivated by procedures instead, where procedures are defined independently of an outcome. To that end, we design procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry the same information on...
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equal treatment of agents. Discrimination is, thus, a consequence of reciprocity. Agents that are discriminated against …
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People exhibit group reciprocity when they retaliate, not against the person who harmed them, but against somebody else … in that person's group. Group reciprocity may be a key motivation behind intergroup conflict. We investigated group … reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. After a group identity manipulation, subjects played a Prisoner's Dilemma with others from …
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