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black lies (increasing the supervisor's earnings while decreasing the worker's payoff) and Pareto white lies (increasing the … earnings of both) according to Erat and Gneezy (2009)'s terminology are frequent. In contrast, spiteful black lies (decreasing … the earnings of both) and altruistic white lies (increasing the earnings of workers but decreasing those of the supervisor …
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strength of the promise. Freely formulated messages lead to the fewest lies and the most efficient outcomes. …
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This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are …
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material payoff? This paper addresses those questions in experiments that first elicit subjects' social preferences and then …
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …
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In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...
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Banning deception in economic experiments does not exclude experiments with participants in the role of experimenters … who can gain by deceiving those in the role of participants. We compare treatments with and without possible deception by … experimenter-participants to test whether deception aects behaviour of participant-participants in a dictator experiment and …
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inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which …
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. I conduct two new experiments which are explicitly designed to test for a 'pure' aversion to lying, and find no evidence …
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This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], Protection for sale, American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...
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