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Does Group Identity Prevent Inefficient Investment in Outside Options? An Experimental Investigation

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2014

We study whether group identity helps mitigate inefficiencies associated with appropriable quasi-rents, which are often created by relationship-specific investments in bilateral trade relationships. Based on previous findings that group identity strengthens other-regarding preferences, we...

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Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012

The hold-up problem has played a central role in the study of firm boundaries, which is a fundamental element of the economic study of organizations. We study a previously unex-plored mechanism by which integration between two parties could resolve the problem. Based on the social identity...

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Symbols, Group Identity and the Hold-up Problem

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

Groups, companies, and organizations identify themselves via symbols. Symbols have the potential to create group identity and at the same time create group boundaries, thus allowing for achieving the benefits of cooperation by ingroup members. We use a laboratory experiment to study the role of...

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Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents

Guzmán, Andrea; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the average behavior of others or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we...

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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution

Weng, Qian; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote … combinations of homogenous or heterogeneous endowment, strong or weak identity, and absence or presence of peer punishment. We find … that without punishment, strong identity can counteract the negative impact of endowment heterogeneity on cooperation …

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Punishment with Uncertain Outcomes in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Duersch, Peter; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009

This paper experimentally investigates whether risk-averse individuals punish less if the outcome of punishment is … is played; Certain Punishment in which the prisoner’s dilemma game is followed by a punishment stage allowing subjects to … decrease the other player’s payoff by 2 Euros; and Uncertain Punishment in which subjects could decrease the other player …

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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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The House Money Effect and Negative Reciprocity

Danková, Katarína; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2014

In the vast majority of laboratory experiments documenting the existence of reciprocity subjects are endowed with windfall funds. In many environments with salient fairness considerations such endowments are known to inflate subjects’ other-regarding behavior, thereby creating a so-called...

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The House Money Effect and Negative Reciprocity

Danková, Katarína; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2014

In the vast majority of experiments documenting the existence of reciprocity subjects are endowed with windfall funds. In some situations such endowments might create a so-called “house money effect”. We identify two reasons why the source of endowment might matter for negative reciprocity:...

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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...

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