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Driving forces behind informal sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005
theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted … between different fairness principles. Fairness theories that are based on the assumption that players compare their own … the defectors. Fairness theories assuming that players aim to minimize payoff inequalities cannot explain the fact that …
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011
health, and fairness of pay. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601022
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Bargaining or Searching for a Better Price? - An Experimental Study
Feri, Francesco; Gantner, Anita - 2010
This experimental study investigates two bargaining games with twosided incomplete information between a seller and a buyer. In the first game with no outside options many subjects do not use the incomplete information to their advantage as predicted. We find that a model with adjusting priors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294771
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Living in two neighborhoods: Social interaction effects in the lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us to study the behavioral logic of social...
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence ? A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294821
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence: A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269867
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319464
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Institutions and Contract Enforcement
Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Macleod, W. Bentley - 2011
We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions - dismissal barriers, and bonus pay - affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker performance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333911
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Institutions and contract enforcement
Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2008
We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions - dismissal barriers, and bonus pay - affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker performance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264349
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Institutions and contract enforcement
Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2008
We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions - dismissal barriers, and bonus pay - affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker performance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268924