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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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We analyze the effects of introducing asymmetric information and expectations in the investment game (Berg et al., 1995 …). In our experiment, only the trustee knows the size of the surplus. Subjects’ expectations about each other’s behavior are …
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This paper uses a controlled laboratory environment and a two-person investment game in a multi-period setting to … trust by over 30% in both cases. To control for a treatment sequence effect, we conducted the experiment in a reverse order …
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evidence on the effects of transparency and empowerment on trust (investment by a principal) and trustworthiness (reciprocal … behavior of an agent) in a simple two-person investment game. We find that when principals are empowered by being able to … punish agents who may not act in a way the principal believes is in the principal’s best interest, trust and investment …
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We test an implication that is common to all prominent theories of outcome-based other-regarding preferences: the ordinal preference ranking of an agent over a finite number of alternatives lying on any straight line in the space of material payoffs to oneself and some other agent must be...
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This paper compares the standard procedure of playing dictator and ultimatum games with the same games played by participants who knew the family name of their counterparts. When these names were revealed, dictators allocated a significantly larger portion of the pie.
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experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporalchoices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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