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Unequal opportunities, social groups, and redistribution : evidence from the general population

Schwaiger, Rene; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2020

redistribution. We present results from a large-scale online experiment with more than 4,000 participants. The experiment features a …

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on a ltruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...

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Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered

Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2007 - This version: 04 May 2007

While most papers on team decision-making find that teams behave more selfishly, less trustingly and less altruistically than individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are more altruistic than individuals in a dictator game. Using a within-subjects design we re-examine group...

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Gender pairing and bargaining : beware the same sex!

Sutter, Matthias; Bosman, Ronald; Kocher, Martin; … - 2008 - This version: December 2008

We study the influence of gender and gender pairing on economic decision making in an experimental two-person bargaining game where the other party's gender is known to both actors. We find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically...

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Bargaining or searching for a better price? : an experimental study

Feri, Francesco; Gantner, Anita - 2010

This experimental study investigates two bargaining games with twosided incomplete information between a seller and a buyer. In the first game with no outside options many subjects do not use the incomplete information to their advantage as predicted. We find that a model with adjusting priors...

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...

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Trust in cooperation or ability? : an experimental study on gender differences

Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2007

We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is required. -- trust ; gender ; experiment ; cooperation ;...

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Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion : an experimental investigation

Fellner, Gerlinde; Sutter, Matthias - 2008

We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures of myopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment behaviour under risk. We find that both, investment horizons and feedback frequency contribute almost equally to the effects of MLA. Longer investment horizons and less frequent...

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The economics of credence goods : on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009

Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the determinants for efficiency in credence goods...

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Testing the Modigliani-Miller theorem directly in the lab : a general equilibrium approach

Qiu, Jianying; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009

In this paper, we directly test the Modigliani-Miller theorem in the lab. Applying a general equilibrium approach and … Modigliani-Miller theorem, experimental subjects well recognized the increased systematic risk of equity with increasing leverage … and accordingly demanded higher rate of return. Furthermore, the correlation between the value of the debt and equity is …

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