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The donor problem
Abbink, Klaus; Ellman, Matthew - 2004
Donors often rely on local intermediaries to deliver benefits to target beneficiaries. Each selected recipient observes … distortions are similar, but intermediaries embezzle more when they have selection power and (correctly) expect fewer complaints. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290536
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Rich meets Poor - An International Fairness Experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008
conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326015
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Stated social behavior and revealed actions: Evidence from six Latin American countries using representative samples
Cárdenas, Juan Camilo; Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo - 2008
cities, the paper links the results of these experiments with the responses obtained from representative surveys to the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278197
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Should the Same Side of the Market always move first in a Transaction? An Experimental Study
van der Heijden, Eline C.M.; Nelissen, Jan H.M.; … - 2001
This paper investigates whether transactions where the buyer (or the seller) always moves first, andthe seller (or the buyer) always moves second in the exchange gives higher payoffs than exchangesin which it is randomly determined who moves first. We examine the effect of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324922
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Fair share and social efficiency: A mechanism in which peers decide on the payoff division
Dong, Lu; Falvey, Rod; Luckraz, Shravan - 2016
We propose and experimentally test a mechanism for a class of principal-agent problems in which agents can observe each others' efforts. In this mechanism each player costlessly assigns a share of the pie to each of the other players, after observing their contributions, and the final...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688535
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Talking behind your back: Asymmetric communication in a three-person dilemma
Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - 2018
partners to reach out to the excluded member helps to restore cooperation and fairness in profit allocation. But it does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029789
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Preferences for redistribution and pensions: What can we learn from experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270867
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Born that way: Beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547697
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Large effects of small cues: Priming selfish economic decisions
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024
differences in the interpretation of the context. We test this hypothesis by conducting two social dilemma experiments in the US … and Israel with participants from both economics and non-economics majors. In the experiments, participants face a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577216
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Fairness preferences in a bilateral trade experiment
Ciccone, Alice; Rogeberg, Ole; Braaten, Ragnhild Haugli - In: Games 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17
Is the willingness to make trades influenced by how the total gains from trade are split between the trading partners? We present results from a bilateral trade game (n = 128) where all participants were price-takers and trading pairs faced one of three exogenously imposed trading prices. The...
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