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Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2015

Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single …

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Does Willful Ignorance Deflect Punishment? - An Experimental Study

Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...

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Fairness in winner-take-all markets

Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Ekström, Mathias - 2018

" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from … her performance. Our findings shed light on the present political debate on redistribution, by suggesting that people may …

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Let the market decide: An experimental study of competition and fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2014

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

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Reference points in renegotiations: The role of contracts and competition

Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this …

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Use and abuse of authority: A behavioral foundation of the employment relation

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

, inducing them to resist entering into employment contracts. This resistance to employment contracts vanishes if fairness …

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Does market interaction erode moral values?

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2020

The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including their possible impact on moral values, is necessary...

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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015

This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process. We conduct an experimental voting game in which...

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2014

Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal-at least partly-from an assumed positive intrinsic...

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2013

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