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We study consumers' concerns for the ideological values of their market counterparts and the implications of such concerns for the public promotion of values. Using a survey and online and laboratory experiments, we find that consumers are willing to pay premiums to exchange with counterparts...
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learning might take place. The current paper extends this previous work. Using an experiment in which subjects play four games … feedback between plays of the game. However, this previous work demonstrates this "no-feedback" learning using a special game … without feedback, the experiment allows a stronger test of "no-feedback learning" as well as a better understanding of the …
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about the social appropriateness of any action they take. Our work also suggests that a social norm is not always a single …
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We explore bargaining, using ultimatum games, when one party, the proposer, possesses private information about the pie size and can either misrepresent this information through untruthful statements (explicit deception) or through information-revealing actions (implicit deception). Our study is...
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environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment … allocation of monetary incentives. In general, the presence of active group leaders gives rise to significantly more dishonest … behavior. Moreover, appointing leaders who are likely to have acted dishonestly in a preliminary stage of the experiment yields …
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We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying group growth rates. Using a laboratory public-good game, we construct a situation where increasing group size yields potential efficiency gains, but only with sustained cooperation. We then study the effect of exogenously...
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to the target of trust. We conduct an experiment in which we vary the target of trust among passersby at several …
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-social acts? In a laboratory experiment, we find that third parties punish reluctantly: they state a preference to punish, but …
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Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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