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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013 - This version: 24 June 2013

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010 - This version: 09/16/2010

schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … and equity concerns, which sometimes cut in opposite directions. Contributions, which seem mainly determined by boundedly … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. -- equality ; efficiency …

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010

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The limits of guilt

Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena - 2016 - This version: 25 April 2016

According to the theory of guilt aversion, agents suffer a psychological cost whenever they fall short of other people's expectations. In this paper we suggest that there may be limits to this kind of motivation. We present evidence from an experimental dictator game showing that dictators...

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Affirmative action or just discrimination? : a study on the endogenous emergence of quotas

Balafoutas, Loukas; Davis, Brent J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2016 - This version: 16 February 2016

Affirmative action rules are often implemented to promote women on labor markets. Little is known, however, about how and whether such rules emerge endogenously in groups of potentially affected subjects. We experimentally investigate whether subjects vote for affirmative action rules, against,...

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Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups

Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek - 2021 - This version: 22.06.2021

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects behavior and the functioning of a social group. We...

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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010 - This version: 10 May 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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Distributional preferences and competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study experimentally the relationship between distributional preferences and competitive behavior. We find that spiteful subjects react strongest to competitive pressure and win in a tournament significantly more often than efficiency-minded and inequality averse subjects. However, when given...

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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Davis, Brent J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2017

Tournament incentives prevail in labor markets, in particular with respect to promotions. Yet, it is often unclear to competitors how many winners there will be or how many applicants compete in the tournament. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and...

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Serving consumers in an uncertain world : a credence goods experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2023 - This version: 30 September 2023

Credence goods markets are prone to fraudulent behavior and market inefficiencies due to informational asymmetries between sellers and customers. We examine experimentally the effects of diagnostic uncertainty and insurance coverage on the information acquisition and provision decisions by...

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