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experimenter-participants to test whether deception aects behaviour of participant-participants in a dictator experiment and …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 …
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Informational asymmetries abound in economic decision making and often provide an incentive for deception through … telling a lie or misrepresenting information. In this paper I use a cheap-talk sender-receiver experiment to show that telling … the truth should be classified as deception too if the sender chooses the true message with the expectation that the …
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The quadratic scoring rule (QSR) is often used to guarantee an incentive compatible elicitation of subjective probabilities over events. Experimentalists have regularly not been able to ensure that subjects fully comprehend the consequences of their actions on payoffs given the rules of the...
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In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in …
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We experimentally investigate the effect of cheap talk in a bargaining game with one-sided asymmetric information. A seller has private information about his or her skill and is provided an opportunity to communicate this information to a buyer through a written message. Four different...
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experiment shows there is a workable alternative todeception. …
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of fraud imply the harmonious and efficient operation of several factors. One of them understands people's attitudes … the attitudes of the younger population towards fraud in Serbia. More precisely, the paper discusses the attitudes of …Fraud is linked to economic and financial pressures that force people to commit it. Any fraud, regardless of the gender …
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accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third …
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they expect the fundamental value to stay constant.Running the experiment with a different context (stocks of a depletable …
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