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in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
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when controlled experiments are not a viable option, appropriate approaches might succeed where traditional empirical …
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We present a simple two-steps procedure for a within-subject test of the inequity aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). In the first step, subjects played modified ultimatum and dictator games and were classified according to their preferences. In the second step, subjects with specific...
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conducted a simple experiment with people who have been involved in international climate policy. The experiment, which was run …
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In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the...
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This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
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This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament …
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influencing insurance decisions. We address these two elements in monetary incentivized experiments which include representations … experiment with a student subject pool in Germany. In addition, we replicate the experiment as an online experiment with citizens … of flood-prone areas in the city of Dornbirn (Austria). The experiment reflects two possible designs of governmental …
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In auctions bidders are usually assumed to have rational expectations with regards to their winning probability. However, experimental and empirical evidence suggests that agent's expectations depend on direct utility stemming from expectations, resulting in optimism or pessimism. Optimism...
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tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk …
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