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Can Defaults Save the Climate? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Carbon Offsetting Programs
Araña, Jorge; León, Carmelo - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 54 (2013) 4, pp. 613-626
Individual preferences for environmental policies can be influenced by the frame in which choices and decisions are presented. In this paper we present results of a field experiment on the contributions to carbon offsetting programs under two alternative treatments for the default option. The...
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The effect of payoff tables on experimental oligopoly behavior
Gürerk, Özgür; Selten, Reinhard - In: Experimental Economics 15 (2012) 3, pp. 499-509
We explore the effects of the provision of an information-processing instrument—payoff tables—on behavior in experimental oligopolies. In one experimental setting, subjects have access to payoff tables whereas in the other setting they have not. It turns out that this minor variation in...
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Framing in Legislation: The Case of Population Policy in the Philippines
David, Clarissa; Atun, Jenna; Viña, Antonio La - In: Population Research and Policy Review 31 (2012) 2, pp. 297-319
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Efficiency Wages: Signals or Incentives An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Wage and Commitment
Mühlau, Peter; Lindenberg, Siegwart - In: Journal of Management and Governance 7 (2003) 4, pp. 385-400
basedon framing effects and comes to specifichypotheses about the conditions under whichefficiency wages work. These … hypothesescontrast sharply with predictions from theincentives approach. The paper presents anempirical test of the theories and shows …
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The Influence of Decision Frames and Vision Priming on Decision Outcomes in Work Groups: Motivating Stakeholder Considerations
Clark, Kevin; Quigley, Narda; Stumpf, Stephen - In: Journal of Business Ethics 120 (2014) 1, pp. 27-38
particular, we examined whether generally framing the business situation as one involving diverse stakeholders versus a primarily … profit-driven operation (referred to as framing), and whether specific suggestions that participants consider the concerns of … decision framing and stakeholder versus stockholder vision priming. The results revealed that the consistent conditions …
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Jobs and the Future of the US Economy: Possibilities and Limits
Isaacson, Michael; Revia, Aleksandre; Lopezlira, Enrique; … - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 39 (2012) 1, pp. 5-28
This paper reviews the presentations and discussions had at the conference on “Jobs And The Future of the US Economy: Possibilities and Limits” held at Howard University shortly after the late 2000’s financial crisis. The paper begins with the historical context in which the conference was...
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Team reasoning theory: an experimental analysis of common reason to believe and social distance
Becchetti, Leonardo; Antoni, Giacomo Degli; Faillo, Marco - In: International Review of Economics 60 (2013) 3, pp. 269-291
The aim of this paper is to study the role of the “common reason to believe” (Sugden in Philos Explor 16:165–181, <CitationRef CitationID="CR51">2003</CitationRef>) and the reduction of social distance within the theory of team reasoning. The analysis draws on data collected through a Traveler’s Dilemma experiment. To study the...</citationref>
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Assessing Framing of Uncertainties in Water Management Practice
Isendahl, Nicola; Dewulf, Art; Brugnach, Marcela; … - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 15, pp. 3191-3205
order to develop practice relevant strategies for dealing with uncertainties. Framing refers to how people make sense of the … world. With the aim of identifying what are important parameters for the framing of uncertainties in water management … important parameters of how uncertainties get framed. Our assumption is that making framing of uncertainty explicit for water …
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Challenging Standard Non-Cooperative Game Theory? From Bacharach's "Variable Frame Theory" to "Team Reasoning"
Larrouy, Lauren - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2014
The paper purports to stress how the two major contributions of Bacharach: "Variable Frame Theory" (VFT) and "Team Reasoning" (TR) improve Standard Non-Cooperative Game Theory in some relevant aspects which I point out. The aims are to show: (i) how Bacharach respectively justifies coordination...
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Social Preferences and Public Economics: Are good laws a substitute for good citizens?
Bowles, Samuel - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2007
Laws and policies designed to harness self-regarding preferences to public ends may fail when they compromise the beneficial effects of pro-social preferences. Experimental evidence indicates that incentives that appeal to self interest may reduce the salience of intrinsic motivation,...
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