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Self-Image and Moral Balancing - An Experimental Analysis

Ploner, Matteo.; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In our experiment, a dictator game variant, the reported outcome of a die roll determines the endowment (low/high) in a subsequent dictator game. In one treatment the experimenter is present and no cheating is possible, while in another subjects can enter the result of the roll themselves. Moral...

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Charitable Giving Among Females and Males: An Empirical Test of the Competitive Altruism Hypothesis

Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they...

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Determinants of In-group Bias: Group Affiliation or Guilt-aversion?

Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In-group favoritism in social dilemma situations is one of the main findings of studies in Social Identity Theory. We investigate what causes the in-group bias: is it due to mere group affiliation or, alternatively, is guilt-aversion a possible explanation? We induce group membership in a...

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Social Preferences? Google Answers!

Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

experimental literature we find evidence that tipping is motivated by reciprocity, but also by reputation concerns among frequent …

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Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? An experimental study about self-awareness in status- seeking behavior

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...

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More than outcomes: The role of self-image in other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...

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Is observed other-regarding behavior always genuine?

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We investigate to what extent genuine social preferences can explain observed other-regarding behavior. In a social dilemma situation (a dictator game variant), people can choose whether to learn about the consequences of their choice for the receiver. We ï¬nd that a majority of the people...

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On the Independence of Observations between Experiments

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

attempts to shed some light on the independence of observations between experiments, if they are generated by the same subjects …. We analyze experiments with an allocation decision and find that participation in previous experiments tends to increase … the amount subjects allocate to themselves. Hence, independence between experiments cannot be presumed if subjects …

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Screening, competition, and job design: economic origins of good jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These “high-performance work systems” are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...

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Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work systems" are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...

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