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Holm, Håkan J.; Daielson, Anders - 2005

While many studies have shown that fairness matters few efforts have been made to find out how important fairness is to … the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … that 90 percent of subjects that had demonstrated fairness ambitions were willing to let down their counterparts if …

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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment

Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010

The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...

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Second Thoughts on Free Riding

Nielsen, Ulrik H.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik - 2013

We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game...

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Strategic Decisions: Behavioral Differences Between CEOs and Others

Holm, Håkan J.; Nee, Victor; Opper, Sonja - 2016

Differences in strategic decision making between CEOs and other people are interesting since CEOs make important economic decisions and impact values and norms in society. Our study combines a large stratified random sample of 199 CEOs of medium-size firms with a carefully selected control group...

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Grind or Gamble? An Experimental Analysis of Effort and Spread Seeking in Contests

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Wengström, Erik - 2019

We conduct a contest experiment to study if spread seeking and effort can be managed in a situation where participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an uncertain performance variable. Subjects are treated with different prize schemes and in accordance with theory, we...

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Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes

Fehr, Ernst; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2005

There is abundant evidence that many individuals violate the rationality assumptions routinely made in economics. However, powerful evidence also indicates that violations of individual rationality do not necessarily refute the aggregate predictions of standard economic models that assume full...

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Stereotypes, Sex Discrimination and Paranoia - an experimental study

Holm, Håkan J. - 2000

We analyze results from two categories of experiments where the subjects received controlled signals about the sex of their co-players. In a series of Battle of the Sexes experiments the subjects played more hawkish against women than against men. The impact of the sex signal was most pronounced...

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What's in a Name? - An ethnical discrimination experiment

Holm, Håkan J. - 2001

This paper presents the results from an ethnical discrimination experiment that was conducted in one of Sweden's most "problematic" cities with respect to the integration process of refugees. The subjects confronted three different bargaining games; one trust game, one social exclusion and...

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Double-Blind in Light of Internet – Note on Review Processes

Holm, Håkan J. - 2009

This paper analyses the credibility of author anonymity provided by double-blind review processes. It is argued that authors have strong incentives to disseminate information about their papers before publication. A sample from two economics journals, both using double-blind review processes...

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Free-riding on Communication: An Experimental Study

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J. - 2011

This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds strong indications of such free-riding. Firstly, the subjects tend to wait for others to send a message when communication is costly, which does not happen when communication is...

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