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Disincentives from redistribution : evidence on a dividend of democracy

Sausgruber, Rupert; Sonntag, Axel; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2019

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Distributional preferences explain individual behavior across games and time

Hedegaard, Morten; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel; … - 2019

We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...

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Social preferences and political attitudes : an online experiment on a large heterogeneous sample

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel - 2017

This paper investigates - in a large heterogeneous sample - the relationship between social preferences on the one hand, and socioeconomic factors and political preferences on the other hand. Socioeconomic factors correlate with social preferences, and social preferences robustly shape political...

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Robust inference in risk elicitation tasks

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; … - 2018

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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)

In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients, we study …

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How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2015 - This Version: February 2015

Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the quality received, experimental evidence...

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Heterogeneity in rent-seeking contests with multiple stages : theory and experimental evidence ; conference paper

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - 2014

This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants' investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost...

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Money illusion and coordination failure

Fehr, Ernst; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2004

Economists long considered money illusion to be largely irrelevant. Here we show, however, that money illusion has powerful effects on equilibrium selection. If we represent payoffs in nominal terms, choices converge to the Pareto inefficient equilibrium; however, if we lift the veil of money by...

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Vickrey auction vs BDM : difference in bidding behaviour and the impact of other-regarding motives

Flynn, Niall; Kah, Christopher; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2015

In an experiment we first elicit the distributional preferences of subjects and then let them bid for a lottery, either …

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Car mechanics in the lab : investigating the behavior of real experts on experimental markets for credence goods

Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2014 - This Version: December 25th, 2013

sellers and consumers, leading to fraud in the form of provision of insufficient service (undertreatment), provision of … level of fraud. We investigate whether professional car mechanics - as real sellers of credence goods - react in the same … way to changes in informational and institutional constraints. While we find qualitatively similar effects in the fraud …

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