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What Price Fairness? A Bargaining Study
Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999
Our study concerns bargaining behavior in situations where one party is in a stronger position than the other. We investigate both the tradeoff the favored party makes between pursuing his strategic advantage and giving weight to other players' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556668
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence ? A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462709
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a largescale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, oneshot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571478
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568487
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Let the Dummy Talk! - Unilateral Communication and Discrimination in Three-Person Dictator Experiments -
Greiner, Ben; Güth, Werner; Ro'i Zultan - Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschafts- und … - 2005
To explain why pre-play communication increases cooperation in games, one refers to a) strategic causes such as efficient communication or reputation effects, and b) changes in the utilities due to social processes. Hitherto experimental support for both explanations is mixed and confounded. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704403
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Let the Dummy Talk! Unilateral Communication and Discrimination in Three-Person Dictator Experiments
Greiner, Ben; Guth, Werner; Ro’i Zultan - Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University … - 2005
To explain why pre-play communication increases cooperation in games, one refers to a) strategic causes such as efficient communication or reputation effects, and b) changes in the utilities due to social processes. Hitherto experimental support for both explanations is mixed and confounded. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005596255
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Trust and Reciprocity in Incentive Contracting
Rigdon, Mary - EconWPA - 2005
Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...
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Is Trust a Bad Investment?
Ashraf, Nava; Bohnet, Iris; Piankov, Nikita - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004
This paper examines whether trust is an investment decision under uncertainty, based on the expectation of … trustworthiness, and whether trustworthiness is reciprocity, conditional on one?s counterpart?s behavior. In trust experiments in … Russia, South Africa and the United States, two thirds of the subjects who trust do not expect trust to pay monetarily. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673537
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Sustaining Cooperation in trust Games
McCabe, Kevin; Rigdon, Mary; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2004
-person trust game. Players are typed based on their recent track record as whether or not they are trusting (Players 1) and whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125594
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Trust in cooperation or ability? – An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party’s cooperation and trust in ability. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588002