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relatively complex environments. In this experiment we test whether subjects are more likely to use imitation if they are under … stress. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly. Treatments are time pressure within the task and distractions through a … second task (a Stroop-task) that has to be performed as well and influences payment. We measure stress levels through …
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relatively complex environments. In this experiment we test whether subjects are more likely to use imitation if they are under … stress. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly. Treatments are time pressure within the task and distractions through a … second task (a Stroop-task) that has to be performed as well and influences payment. We measure stress levels through salivary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895513
We investigate the effects of the availability of resources that can be expended in conflict on conflict intensity. We run a between-subjects Tullock contest in which we vary the contest budget from Low to Medium to High, while keeping the Nash equilibrium bid the same. We find an 'inverted...
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Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates or intensifies rent-seeking for pure public goods. We...
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While folk theorems for dynamic renewable common pool resource games sustain cooperation as an equilibrium, the possibility of reverting to violence to appropriate the resource destroys the incentives to cooperate, because of the expectation of conflict when resources are sufficiently depleted....
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In this paper we study the effects of providing additional feedback about individual contributions and earnings on the dynamics of contributions in a repeated public good game. We include treatments where subjects can freely choose whether to obtain additional information about individual...
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In this paper we study the effects of providing additional feedback about individual contributions and/or earnings on contributions and the dynamics of contributions in a repeated public good game. We include treatments where subjects can freely choose whether to obtain additional information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573038
Many important decisions are made under stress and they often involve risky alternatives. There has been ample evidence … that stress influences decision making in cognitive as well as in affective domains, but still very little is known about … whether individual attitudes to risk change with exposure to acute stress. To directly evaluate the causal effect of stress on …
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frequency) to HF (high frequency band) ratio can be used as an index of sympathovagal balance or psychic stress. Our results … psychic stress and tax compliance and thus underscore the importance of moral sentiment in the tax compliance context. …
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frequency) to HF (high frequency band) ratio can be used as an index of sympathovagal balance or psychic stress. Our results … psychic stress and tax compliance and thus underscore the importance of moral sentiment in the tax compliance context. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607941