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Punishment with Uncertain Outcomes in the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Duersch, Peter; Servátka, Maroš - 2009
This paper experimentally investigates whether risk-averse individuals punish less if the outcome of punishment is … is played; Certain Punishment in which the prisoner’s dilemma game is followed by a punishment stage allowing subjects to … decrease the other player’s payoff by 2 Euros; and Uncertain Punishment in which subjects could decrease the other player …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422197
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
, with either a negative externality on a third participant, uncertainty about gains from cooperation, or both. Uncertainty … foster cooperation. If we combine both qualifications and do not control for beliefs, we only find an uncertainty effect. If …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281843
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When is the risk of cooperation worth taking? The prisoner's dilemma as a game of multiple motives
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013
modelled as a simultaneous, symmetric prisoner's dilemma. This experiment manipulates the payoff in case both players defect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323844
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Gender Differences in Trust and Reciprocity
Chaudhuri, Ananish; Gangadharan, Lata - 2002
We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and reciprocity. In doing so we replicate and extend the results first reported by Croson and Buchan (1999). We find that men exhibit greater trust than women do while women show much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263242
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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 - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286722
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The Janus Face of Cooperation: An Intra- and Cross-Cultural Review
Walkowitz, Gari; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2007
This paper introduces a two-sided methodological framework for studies on cooperation based on a new game design. Presented games are continuous prisoner's dilemma games with positive and negative presentations of an identically structured decision problem. Decision makers can choose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263187
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The provision of public goods with positive group interdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267122
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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264587
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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269296
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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277508