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Conveniently Upset : Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others
Tella, Rafael Di - 2010
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of the recipient's tokens,...
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Trust in Large Organizations
Porta, Rafael La - 1996
Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472964
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Shifting Punishment on Minorities : Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Chytilová, Julie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group...
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Learning Through Imitation : an Experiment
Agranov, Marina; Lopez-Moctezuma, Gabriel; Strack, Philipp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We compare how well agents aggregate information in two repeated social learning environments. In the first setting agents have access to a public data set. In the second they have access to the same data, and also to the past actions of others. Despite the fact that actions contain no...
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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study
Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions …
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Cheap Talk and Coordination in the Lab and in the Field : Collective Commercialization in Senegal
Aflagah, Fo Kodjo Dzinyefa - 2019
Coordination is central to social interactions. Theory and conventional lab experiments suggest that cheap talk … agricultural cooperatives seek to jointly sell their output. Combining artefactual/lab-in-the-field experiments (LFEs), natural … field experiments (RCTs), surveys, and cooperative records, we find that (1) revealing farmers' intended sales (i.e., cheap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479993
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Expectations-Based Loss Aversion May Help Explain Seemingly Dominated Choices in Strategy-Proof Mechanisms
Dreyfuss, Bnaya - 2019
and experiments--participants frequently play seemingly dominated, significantly costly, strategies that avoid small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480338
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Rules and Commitment in Communication : an Experimental Analysis
Fréchette, Guillaume R. - 2019
experiments provide general support for the strategic rationale behind the role of commitment and, more specifically, for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480348
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Reciprocity versus Reelection
Dalmia, Prateik - 2020
for instrumental purposes. We then present an experiment that tests these ideas in the laboratory and finds support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481495
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Social Interactions in Pandemics : Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
Alfaro, Laura - 2020
In SIR models, infection rates are typically exogenous, whereas individuals adjust their behavior in reality. City-level data across the globe suggest that mobility falls in response to fear, proxied by Google searches. Incorporating experimentally validated measures of social preferences at the...
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