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How Universal is Behavior?
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
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Born that way: Beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one …
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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms
Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans - 2005
fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role … behavior depending on their fairness perceptions, their experienced emotions, and their interaction with responders. We find … that fairness plays an important role in the behavior of proposers. Specifically, deviations from a perceived fairness norm …
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Kahneman and Tversky and the Origin of Behavioral Economics
Heukelom, Floris - 2007
Kahneman and Tversky and their behavioral economics stand in a long tradition of applying mathematics to human behavior. In the seventeenth century, attempts to describe rational behavior in mathematical terms run into problems with the formulation of the St. Petersburg paradox. Bernoulli’s...
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The Behavioral Impact of Emotions in a Power to take Game: An Experimental Study
Bosman, Ronald; van Winden, Frans A.A.M. - 1999
The power to take game is a simple two player game where players arerandomly divided into pairs consisting of a take authority and responder.Both players in each pair have earned an own income in an individual realeffort decision-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two...
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Rich meets Poor - An International Fairness Experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008
conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326015
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Who are the Behavioral Economists and what do they say?
Heukelom, Floris - 2007
The most important financial source for behavioral economics is the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF). The most prominent behavioral economists among the RSF’s twenty-six member Behavioral Economics Roundtable (BER) are Kahneman, Tversky, Thaler, Camerer, Loewenstein, Rabin, and Laibson. The...
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That's Just - Not Fair: Gender Differences in Notions of Justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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On the effect of anchoring on valuations when the anchor is transparently uninformative
Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2020
We test whether anchoring affects people's elicited valuations for a bottle of wine in individual decision making and in markets. We anchor subjects by asking them if they are willing to sell a bottle of wine for a transparently uninformative random price. We elicit subjects'...
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Why do oaths work? Image concerns and credibility in promise keeping
Kingsuwankul, Sorravich; Tergiman, Chloe; Villeval, … - 2023
We use a laboratory experiment to understand the channels through which honesty oaths can affect behavior and credibility. Using a game with asymmetric information in a financial market setting that captures some important features of advisor-investor interactions, we manipulate the common...
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