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The People’s Hired Guns? Experimentally Testing the Inclination of Prosecutors to Abuse the Vague Definition of Crimes

Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja Katarzyna - 2011

Legal realists expect prosecutors to be selfish. If they get the defendant convicted, this helps them advance their careers. If the odds of winning on the main charge are low, prosecutors have a second option. They can exploit the ambiguity of legal doctrine and charge the defendant for vaguely...

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The Jurisdiction of the Man within – Introspection, Identity, and Cooperation in a Public Good Experiment

Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael J. - 2015

According to Adam Smith (1790), human selfishness can be restrained by introspection. We test the effect of introspection on people’s willingness to cooperate in a public good game. Drawing on the concept of identity utility (George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, 2000), we show...

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Words substitute fists : justifying punishment in a public good experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013

Punishees regularly ask for justification. But is justification also effective? To answer this question under controlled conditions, we have conducted a public goods experiment with central punishment. The authority is neutral - she does not benefit from contributions to the public good....

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Who is afraid of pirates? : an experiment on the deterrence of innovation by imitation

Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - 2013

cost and risk. Nonetheless standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by … appropriation than predicted by standard theory. But the risk and the experience of appropriation does not deter innovation. We find … even more innovation than predicted by theory, and actually more than would be efficient. In the lab, the prospect of …

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Tax morale and fairness in conflict : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Mittone, Luigi; Morreale, Azzurra - 2019

Arguably, for many citizens the perceived expected disutility from sanctions is smaller than the monetary gain from tax evasion. Nevertheless most people pay their taxes most of the time. In a lab experiment, we show that the willingness to pay taxes even absent enforcement is indeed pronounced....

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Who is Afraid of Pirates? An Experiment on the Deterrence of Innovation by Imitation

Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - 2013

cost and risk. Nonetheless standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by … lab. We find more appropriation but also more innovation than predicted by standard theory. In the lab, the prospect of … theory. The data suggest that this behavior results from the intention not to be outperformed by one’s peers …

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Governing the egalitarians from without : the case of the internet

Engel, Christoph - 2003

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Governing the egalitarians from without : the case of the internet

Engel, Christoph - 2003

. A subfield of sociology, cultural theory, is particularly instrumental for that purpose. In order to address the …

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Governing the Egalitarians from Without : The Case of the Internet

Engel, Christoph - 2004

. A subfield of sociology, cultural theory, is particularly instrumental for that purpose. In order to address the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074775

Beware of broken windows! First impressions in public-good experiments

Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009

Broken Windows: the metaphor has changed New York and Los Angeles. Yet it is far from undisputed whether the broken windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we show that first impressions are indeed causal for cooperativeness in three different institutional...

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