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Pre-play communication with forgone costly messages: Experimental evidence on forward induction

Blume, Andreas; Kriss, Peter H.; Weber, Roberto - 2014

We study communication in a two-player coordination game with Pareto-ranked equilibria. Prior research demonstrates … that efficient coordination is difficult without communication but obtains regularly with (mandatory) costless pre …-play messages. In a laboratory experiment, we modify communication by making the sending of messages optional and costly. Even small …

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Communication and punishment in voluntary contribution experiments

Bochet, Olivier; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2005

: communication, and punishment (allowing subjects to engage in costly reductions of one another’s earnings after learning of their … contribution decisions). We find that communication increases contributions more than punishment, and, taking into account the cost … of punishment, only communication significantly increases subjects’ earnings and thus efficiency. We study three forms of …

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Communication and punishment in voluntary contribution experiments

Bochet, Olivier; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2002

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Lavish returns on cheap talk: Non-binding communication in a trust experiment

Ben-Ner, Avner; Putterman, Louis; Ren, Ting - 2007

-play communication: numerical (tabular) only, and verbal and numerical. We find that either kind of pre-play communication increases … trusting, trustworthiness, or both, in inter-subject comparisons, but that the inclusions of verbal communication generates …

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Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?

Rendall, Michelle - 2012

This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...

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International reserves and swap lines: Substitutes or complements?

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Park, Donghyun - 2010

Developing Asia experienced a sharp surge in foreign currency reserves prior to the 2008-9 crisis. The global crisis …

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Pan-Asianism in Meiji and Taishô Japan : A Preliminary Framework

Saaler, Sven - 2002

Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...

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Tax avoidance, tax evasion, and tax flight: Do legal differences matter?

Schneider, Friedrich; Kirchler, Erich; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001

Although from an economic point of view, legal considerations apart, tax avoidance, tax evasion and tax flight have similar effects, namely a reduction of revenue yields, and are based on the same desire to reduce the tax burden, it is likely that individuals perceive them as different and as...

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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures - Quasi-experimental Evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts - the number of individuals of the same ethnicity - and the quality of contacts - welfare use among members of the ethnic...

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures: Quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317900