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Planspiele als experimentelle Methode der Politikfolgenabschätzung: Das Beispiel der Stickstoffextensivierung
Musshoff, Oliver; Hirschauer, Norbert - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012
Bei der Abschätzung der Folgen verhaltenssteuernder politischer Maßnahmen mit Hilfe von Rational- Choice-Modellen, die von der Verhaltensannahme eines vollständig informierten und ausschließlich gewinnmaximierenden homo oeconomicus ausgehen, besteht die Gefahr, dass Art und Geschwindigkeit...
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The influence of wages on public officials' corruptibility: A laboratory investigation
van Veldhuizen, Roel - Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", … - 2013
Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates …
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The influence of wages on public officials’ corruptibility: A laboratory investigation
van Veldhuizen, R. - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 39 (2013) C, pp. 341-356
Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. The present paper investigates …
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A controlled field experiment on corruption
Armantier, Olivier; Boly, Amadou - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 8, pp. 1072-1082
This paper reports on a controlled field experiment on corruption designed to address two important issues: the … experimenter's scrutiny and the unobservability of corruption. In the experiment, a grader is offered a bribe along with a demand … ambiguous: it lowers the bribe's acceptance, but it fosters reciprocation. Monitoring and punishment can deter corruption, but …
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The Influence of Wages on Public Officials' Corruptibility: A Laboratory Investigation
Veldhuizen, Roel van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. This paper investigates this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256733
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
"A common-pool resource (CPR) is defined as any resource in which exclusion is difficult and consumption of resource units is rival. Examples of CPRs include groundwater basins, fisheries, forests, grazing ranges, and irrigation systems in which property rights--or the ability to uphold such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468337
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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Stochastic Asymmetric Blotto Games: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Duffy, John; Matros, Alexander - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 2013
We study a 2-player Blotto game where the n items have asymmetric values. The winner of each item is determined stochastically using a lottery mechanism. We analyze two payoff objectives: (i) players maximize their total expected payoffs and (ii) players maximize their probability of winning a...
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Trading Participation Rights to the “Red Hat Puzzle”. An Experiment
Choo, Lawrence C. Y. - Business School, University of Exeter - 2014
This paper investigates the conventional wisdom that markets should allocate the rights for performing decisional tasks to those players who might be best suited to perform the task. I embed the decisional tasks in a stylised setting of a game, motivated by Littlewood (1953) Red Hat Puzzle,...
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Net-Loss Reciprocation and the Context Dependency of Economic Choices
König, Clemens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper proposes a novel explanation for the context dependency of individual choices in two-player games. Context dependency refers to the well-established phenomenon that a player, when choosing from a given opportunity set created by the other player’s strategy, chooses differently in...
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