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For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs …
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In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from the demand to conduct punishment …
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We investigate the influence of two popular compensation schemes on subjects’ inclination to lie by adapting an experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a fairly neglected...
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instrumental in serving other selfish (or non-purely altruistic) ends such as self-reputation or social approval. This experiment …
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Lying and deceiving is present not only in adults but also among children and teenagers and represents an economically and psychological relevant behavioral trait. It is therefore surprising that evidence from economic experiments on deceptive behavior in children and teenagers is scarce. In...
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The unskilled-and-unaware problem describes a negative relationship between one’s skill level and self-assessment bias: the less skilled are, on average, more unaware of the absolute and relative quality of their performance. In this paper, we study whether, and to what extent, the...
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achievement settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how …
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, these hypotheses in a laboratory experiment. …
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experiment (N = 784) that varies the degree to which the decision to compete, and its outcome, is publicly observable. We find …
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contributions game experiment. A common identity between the leader and her two followers is beneficial for cooperation: average …
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