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Individual sense of fairness: An experimental study

Karni, Edi; Salmon, Timothy C.; Sopher, Barry - 2001

This paper presents an experimental test of the theory of individual sense of fairness of Karni and Safra (2000 … part, by concern for fairness. The experimental study is intended to test this hypothesis. In the experiments, the subjects … overall lottery more ``fair''. If these subjects have no concern for fairness, they will choose the lottery that assigns them …

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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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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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Advice and behavior in intergenerational: Ultimatum games: An experimental approach

Schotter, Andrew; Sopher, Barry - 2000

offers with higher probability. In addition, by reading the advice offered we conclude that arguments of fairness are rarely …

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Social learning and coordination conventions in inter-generational games: An experimental study

Schotter, Andrew; Sopher, Barry - 2001

This is a paper on the creation and evolution of conventions of behavior in 'inter-generational games'. In these games a sequence of non-overlapping 'generations' of players play a stage game for a finite number of periods and are then replaced by other agents who continue the game in their role...

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An Experimental Test for Stability of the Transformation Function in Rank-Dependent Expected Utility Theory and Order-Dependent Present Value Theory

Gigliotti, Gary; Sopher, Barry - 1998

to (i) measure the structure of preferences over lotteries and intertemporal income streams and (ii) test for stability …

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Analysis of Intertemporal Choice: A New Framework and Experimental Results

Gigliotti, Gary; Sopher, Barry - 1998

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Risk Aversion Relates to Cognitive Ability: Fact or Fiction?

Andersson, Ola; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik; … - 2013

Recent experimental studies suggest that risk aversion is negatively related to cognitive ability. In this paper we report evidence that this relation might be spurious. We recruit a large subject pool drawn from the general Danish population for our experiment. By presenting subjects with...

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Deciding for Others Reduces Loss Aversion

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; … - 2013

We study risk taking on behalf of others, both with and without potential losses. A large-scale incentivized experiment is conducted with subjects randomly drawn from the Danish population. On average, decision makers take the same risks for other people as for themselves when losses are...

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