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Several online market sites, such as eBay, have implemented reputation management mechanisms in order to improve cooperation. In this article, we aim at investigating the emergence of trust and cooperation in presence of reputation mechanism. In a series of experiments based on the trust game...
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French Abstract: Cet article analyse le lien entre les élections et la corruption. A la différence des approches antérieures sur les pays en développement, de manière générale, et les pays africains, en particulier, nous avons intégré une nouvelle variable de contrôle, à savoir : «...
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The influence of relative wealth on fairness considerations is analyzed in an ultimatum game experiment in which … participants receive large and widely unequal initial endowments. Subjects initially demonstrate a concern for fairness. With time … however, behavior becomes at odds with both subgame perfection and fairness. Evidence of learning is detected for both …
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Partant du constat que des préférences sociales très différentes peuvent conduire, assez paradoxalement, à des comportements assez similaires en jeu d’ultimatum, ce papier a pour ambition de proposer une méthode d’identification de ces préférences. Nous proposons une modélisation...
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Ce travail documente l'augmentation des prix des terrains à  bâtir en France sur une période de vingt-cinq ans. Nous estimons sur un échantillon national une fonction de prix foncier tenant compte de la croissance urbaine. Nous considérons une relation concave entre le prix des terrains et...
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The explanation of social inequalities in education is still a debated issue in economics. Recent empirical studies tend to downplay the potential role of credit constraint. This article tests a different potential explanation of social inequalities in education, specifically that social...
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This study experimentally tests whether a modification to the centralized quota sales system is capable of lowering the price of the milk quota in Québec, while at the same time minimizing the negative impacts on the auction's efficiency. This modification consists of applying two treatments on...
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We make use of experimental economics to examine how people adjust their supply of work effort in response to a variation in tax rates. Participants are paired in the experiment. In each pair, one participant randomly chosen has to exert an effort and is taxed to the benefit of the other...
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This experiment evaluates various systems of taxation on the number of real tasks performed by participants and in terms of fiscal income generated to help government in its redistributive goal. The first treatment concerns a proportional system of taxation. The second treatment considers an...
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