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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007 - This version: 15 October 2007
more likely to win the auction when teams bid. -- UMTS auction ; team decision-making ; experiment ; winner's curse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731143
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Vickrey auction vs BDM : difference in bidding behaviour and the impact of other-regarding motives
Flynn, Niall; Kah, Christopher; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2015
In an experiment we first elicit the distributional preferences of subjects and then let them bid for a lottery, either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404058
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Public beliefs and corruption in a repeated psychological game
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009 - This version: November 10th, 2010
This paper investigates the role of guilt aversion for corruption in public administration. Corruption is modeled as … the outcome of a game played between a bureaucrat, a lobby, and the public. There is a moral cost of corruption for the …, corruption is more likely when the horizon of the game is relatively long and when public beliefs are initially low and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733217
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How much income redistribution? : an explanation based on vote-buying and corruption
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2009 - This version: December 21, 2009
This paper studies how income tax rates are determined and how they are related to government corruption in the form of … equilibrium there is only limited redistribution and income tax rates are a negative function of government corruption. When rich … voters can bribe the government, an additional equilibrium with zero taxation is possible. The link between corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736634
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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003675359
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529903
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Behavioral determinants of home bias : theory and experiment
Dlugosch, Dennis; Horn, Kristian; Wang, Mei - 2014 - This version: April 6, 2014
We study portfolio diversification in an experimental decision task, where asset returns depend on a draw from an ambiguous urn. Holding other information identical and controlling for the level of ambiguity, we find that labeling assets as being familiar or from the homeland of subjects...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455212
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455264
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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
experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401354