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Revealed time-preference
Dziewulski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Consider an experiment in which subjects are asked to choose between pairs consisting of a monetary payment and a time-delay at which the payment is delivered. Given a finite set of observations, under what conditions the choices of an individual agent can be rationalised by a discounted utility...
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From the lab to the field: envelopes, dictators and manners
Stoop, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro-social behavior. This paper builds a bridge from the...
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An Egalitarian Regime Breeds Generosity: The Effect of Endowment Allocation Procedures on Social Preferences
Riyanto, Yohanes Eko; Zhang, Jianlin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We experimentally investigate the effect of endowment allocation procedures on social preferences using a two-stage dictator game. In the first stage, participants who were randomly selected as allocators had to perform a task in order to earn money. Better performance on the task resulted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529249
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Modeling Social Preferences: A Generalized Model of Inequity Aversion
Khan, Hayat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Taking note of the wide variety and growing list of models in the literature to explain patterns of behavior observed in laboratory experiments, this paper identifies two tests, the Variety Test (ability of a model to explain outcomes under variety or alternative scenarios) and the Psychological...
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Identification of Altruism among Team Members: Empirical Evidence from the Classroom and Laboratory
Griffiths, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is difficult to identify acts that are purely altruistic, and do not have some level of egoism or self-interest involved. By considering situations where team members seemingly have nothing to gain by the way they distribute points to others with regard to peer evaluation, and where their...
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Rewarding my Self. Self Esteem, Self Determination and Motivations
Bruno, Bruna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
different explanations (and consequences) of the motivation crowding theory in a unique theoretical framework where the locus of …
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Rewarding my Self. The role of Self Esteem and Self Determination in Motivation Crowding Theory
Bruno, B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper aims to reconcile different explanations (and consequences) of the motivation crowding theory in a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568378
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Diaspora transferts et signal de richesse
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper shows that social interactions can induce families of migrants to care about hierarchical social status because it serves as a signal device of non-observable income. Hence , a concern for social status induces theses families to engage in conspicuous consumption in order to signal...
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The river sharing problem: A review of the technical literature for policy economists
Beard, Rodney - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
problems have been almost exhaustively studied in the literature on economic theory-primarily from the perspective of … cooperative game theory. The main concern of this literature has been how to fairly divide up the assets of a bankrupt entity. In … water resource economics cooperative game theory has often been employed as a means of analyzing water resource allocation …
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Market operation and distributive justice: An evaluation of the ACCRA confession
Graafland, J.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the so-called ACCRA declaration of 2004 the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) condemns neo liberal globalisation on grounds of lack of justice. This paper outlines ten alternative criteria for distributive justice. We show that Biblical ethics support various of these criteria,...
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