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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 12-25
This paper investigates in a principal–agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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Isolating and identifying motivations: A voluntary contribution mechanism experiment with interior Nash equilibria
Kumakawa, Takehisa; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Yamato, Takehiko - School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of … - 2015
cooperative motivation when they know the other subject's payoff information. Altruistic motivation is found to be rare throughout … the experiment. …
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Crowding out in an indefinitely repeated Asymmetric Trust Game
Dirkmaat, T.; Rosenkranz, S.; Buskens, V.W. - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2006
In this paper we introduce an alternative version of the trust game by Dasgupta (1988) and Kreps (1990) that allows for asymmetric information. We use this version to study the effect of checking on the trustee’s behaviour, checking is a control option the trustor can decide to use and...
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Testing deontological warm glow motivation for carbon abatements
Braaten, Ragnhild Haugli - In: Resource and Energy Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 96-109
Do people contribute to CO2 abatements even when these contributions are completely crowded out by a third party? This study reports from an experimental test of contributions to carbon abatements when the contributions are completely crowded out by the experimenter. Contributions are determined...
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'Altruistic' and 'Antisocial' Punishers are One and the Same
Eriksson, Kimmo; Cownden, Daniel; Ehn, Micael; … - In: Review of Behavioral Economics 1 (2014) 3, pp. 209-221
unrelated to altruism. First, individual use of punishment was uncorrelated with contribution to the public good, contrary to …
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 3, pp. 330-341
cooperation may be less than additive. Using a utility function embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional … altruism attenuates the punishment motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment inflicted on defectors, resulting in … lower levels of contribution. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of …
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What norms trigger punishment?
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter - In: Experimental Economics 12 (2009) 3, pp. 272-288
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Overcoming moral hazard with social networks in the workplace: An experimental approach
Dhillon, Amrita; Peeters, Ronald; Yuksel, Ayse Muge - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014
widespread prevalence are less well known. In this paper we present evidence based on a combined eld-laboratory experiment that … more to the referrer. The advantage of the lab setting is that we can isolate moral hazard and directed altruism as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938749
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ALTRUISM, EQUITY, AND RECIPROCITY IN A GIFT-EXCHANGE EXPERIMENT: AN ENCOMPASSING APPROACH
Charness, Gary B; Haruvy, Ernan - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 1999
economic contexts. Recent models of non-pecuniary motives can be classified as either altruism-based, equity-based, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538330
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Overcoming Moral Hazard with Social Networks in the Worksplace: An Experimental Approach
Dhillon, Amrita; Peeters, Ronald; Muge Yukse, Ayse - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014
widespread prevalence are less well known. In this paper we present evidence based on a lab experiment that suggests quite … the referrer. The advantage of the lab setting is that we can isolate directed altruism as the only reason for these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757449