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Diffusion of being pivotal and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2017

We study how the diffusion of being pivotal affects immoral outcomes. In a first set of experiments, subjects decide … second set of experiments, we run the same baseline and main conditions but use a charity context and additionally study ….e., when we repeat the experiment for a second time. Finally, we report evidence on beliefs, elicited in our main experiments …

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Institutions, shared guilt, and moral transgression

Rothenhäusler, Dominik; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2013

We study how institutional design in influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter can...

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Guilt in voting and public good games

Rothenhäusler, Dominik; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2016

This paper analyzes how moral costs affect individual support of morally difficult group decisions. We study a threshold public good game with moral costs. Motivated by recent empirical findings, we assume that these costs are heterogeneous and consist of three parts. The first one is a standard...

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Declining labor-labor exchange rates as a cause of inequality growth

Tangian, Andranik S. - 2017

The current trends in the capital/labor split and the impacts thereof on the growth of inequality are one of the main … world least inequality). Then statistically significant implications for the growth of inequality are derived and some …

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Devaluation of one's labor in labor-commodities-money-commodities-labor exchange as a cause of inequality growth

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2016

The inequality growth during the last quarter century is explained as caused by a decreasing labor-labor exchange rate …, Japan, United Kingdom and United States) and Denmark (known for the world least inequality). Finally, it is shown that the … dependence between the degree of inequality and the degree of decline of the labor-labor exchange rate is statistically highly …

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Incentivizing efficient utilization without reducing access: The case against cost-sharing in insurance

Fels, Markus Peter - 2017

Cost-sharing is regarded as an important tool to reduce moral hazard in health insurance. Contrary to standard …

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A little good is good enough: Ethical consumption, cheap excuses, and moral self-licensing

Engel, Jannis; Szech, Nora - 2017

This paper explores the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other independent ethical facets of the product. Opting for a product that fulfills one ethical aspect may thus suffice for keeping a high...

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Homo moralis: Personal characteristics, institutions, and moral decision-making

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Szech, Nora - 2016

This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...

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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2010

For our experiment on corruption we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and information on behavioral choices and determined the equilibria. We observed that the participants' risk attitudes failed to explain their choices between corrupt and...

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Learning in networks: An experimental study using stationary concepts

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Neumann, Thomas; Vogt, Bodo - 2011

Our study analyzes theories of learning for strategic interactions in networks. Participants played two of the 2 x 2 games used by Selten and Chmura (2008) and in the comment by Brunner, Camerer and Goeree (2009). Every participant played against four neighbors and could choose a different...

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