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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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Fair allocation of disputed properties

Ju, Biung-Ghi; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. - 2016

We model problems of allocating disputed properties as generalized exchange economies. Therein, agents have preferences and claims over multiple goods, and the social endowment of each good may not be sufficient to satisfy all individual claims. We focus on market-based allocation rules that...

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Experience in Public Goods Experiments

Conte, Anna; Levati, Vittoria; Montinari, Natalia - 2014

We use information on students' past participation in economic experiments, as stored in our database, to analyze whether behavior in public goods games is affected by experience (i.e., previous participation in social dilemma-type experiments) and history (i.e., participation in experiments of...

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Information transparency, fairness and labor market efficiency

Isgin, Ebru; Sopher, Barry - 2013

The paper studies the role of information transparency on fairness concerns, welfare and efficiency. When the firm … respond with higher performance. Workers respond not only to wages but also to firms' intentions concerning fairness …. Information transparency serves as a mechanism that promotes fairness and performance while the lack of transparency results in …

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Marriage, Housework and Fairness

Widmalm, Frida - 1998

I explore the effects of a preference for fairness in the division of housework between two spouses in two different … process and the degree of fairness consideration matter for policy outcomes and discuss three policy measures in relation to …

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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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Do markets erode social responsibility?

Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...

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Market experience is a reference point in judgments of fairness

Herz, Holger; Taubinsky, Dmitry - 2013

-applicable model of path-dependent fairness preferences, in which past experiences shape preferences, and we experimentally test the …' fairness concerns, making them more likely to accept transactions in which they receive a low share of the surplus. Consistent …

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Fairness in winner-take-all markets

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

The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from …" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …

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Coping with advantageous inequity: Field evidence from professional penalty kicking

Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2017

This contribution examines the effect of advantageous inequity on performance using data from top-level penalty kicking in soccer. Results indicate that, on average, professionals do not perform worse when they experience unfair advantages. However, we find a negative effect of advantageous...

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