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-group efforts are perfect substitutes. The theory predicts that higher aggregate effort will be reached when variation in ability … between groups is lower, i.e., by a more balanced sorting. In the experiment, we assign subjects to four types -- A, B, C, and …
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In markets where transactions are governed by contractual incompleteness, revealed intentions to evade taxes may affect market performance. We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from...
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The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
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messages, on their credibility and on actual play. We run an experiment in a three-player coordination game with Pareto ranked …
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A correlation between second-order beliefs and strategies – in social dilemmas – has been interpreted as evidence of guilt aversion (Charness and Dufwenberg [2006]). Ellingsen et al. [2010] hypothesize that such correlation might rather be due to consensus effects. Here we propose an...
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We examine differences in behavior between subjects interacting with a member of either the same or different identity group in both a centipede game and a series of stag hunt games. We find evidence that subjects interacting with outgroup members are more likely to behave as though...
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messages, on their credibility and on actual play. We run an experiment in a three-player coordination game with Pareto ranked …
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Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage …-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are …. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
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An important branch of economic research on emotions has used power-to-take game experiments to study the impact of negative emotions, such as anger, irritation and contempt, on the decision to punish. We investigate experimentally the role that the specific punishment technology adopted plays...
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-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income …-69, as: 'Emotional Hazard in a Power-to-Take Experiment'. …
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