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The coevolution of behavior and normative expectations : customary law in the lab

Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011

into the normatively desired direction as normative expectations and behavioural patterns coevolve. -- experiment ; Public …

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The coevolution of behavior and normative expectations: Customary law in the lab

Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011

Customary law has been criticized from very different angles. Rational choice theorists claim that what looks like custom is nothing but self-interest. Positivists doubt that anything beyond consent assumes the force of law. In this paper, we adopt an experimental approach to test these claims....

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Tearing the veil of privacy law : an experiment on chilling effects and the right to be forgotten

Hermstrüwer, Yoan; Dickert, Stephan - 2013

Privacy law relies on the argument that consent does not entail any relevant impediments for the liberty of the consenting individual. Challenging this argument, we experimentally investigate whether consent to the publication of personal information in cyberspace entails self-coercion on a...

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Directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks : how much is a friend worth?

Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus; Rosenblat, Tanya; Do, … - 2007

an anonymous treatment where neither player is told at the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment … future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared …

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Testing motives for charitable giving : a revealed-preference methodology with experimental evidence

Deb, Rahul; Gazzale, Robert S.; Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2012

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Motivated errors

Exley, Christine L.; Kessler, Judd B. - 2019

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Can we manage first impressions in cooperation problems? : an experimental study on "Broken (and Fixed) Windows"

Engel, Christoph; Kube, Sebastian; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011

Cooperation problems are at the heart of many everyday situations. In this paper, we propose a very simple and light-handed mechanism to sustain cooperation and test its performance in a rich laboratory environment. The mechanism moderates cooperation by controlling experiences, more...

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Econographics

Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018

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Bargaining around the hearth

Pollak, Robert A. - 2007

In "Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth" (Yale Law Journal, 2006) Robert Ellickson argues that as long as members of a household expect their relationship to continue, norms, rather than law, will determine allocations among them. More specifically, Ellickson...

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What numbers to choose for my lottery ticket? : behavior anomalies in the Chinese online lottery market

Ding, Jieyao - 2011

The Chinese Online Lottery provides field evidence of three anomalies. The first anomaly, which has previously not been documented when there is a financial incentive to overcome, is the guidance effect. Since the target game in this project is a pari-mutuel game, which means people will share...

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