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Big experimenter is watching you! : anonymity and prosocial behavior in the laboratory

Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2011

Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the … important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this literature relies to a large extent on experiments that do …-subject anonymity may create selfish incentives to engage in seemingly other-regarding behavior. If this were the case these experiments …

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Security of property as a public good : institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...

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Reference points in renegotiations : the role of contracts and competition

Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743168

Security of property as a public good : institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are the correlations between experimental choices with indicators regarding the security of property, trust and the quality of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634525

Reference points in renegotiations : the role of contracts and competition

Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

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Tearing the veil of privacy law : an experiment on chilling effects and the right to be forgotten

Hermstrüwer, Yoan; Dickert, Stephan - 2013

Privacy law relies on the argument that consent does not entail any relevant impediments for the liberty of the consenting individual. Challenging this argument, we experimentally investigate whether consent to the publication of personal information in cyberspace entails self-coercion on a...

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Why do people pay for useless advice? : implications of gambler's and hot-hand fallacies in false-expert setting

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes Eko - 2012

We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future chance events. Consistent with the theoretical predictions made by Rabin (2002) and Rabin and Vayanos...

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Monetary incentives and the contagion of unethical behavior

Le Maux, Benoît; Masclet, David; Necker, Sarah - 2021

individuals’ beliefs is accounted for. Third, social information and payoffs do not interact with each other. …

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Are people conditionally honest? : the effects of stakes and information about others' behavior

Le Maux, Benoît; Masclety, David; Necker, Sarah - 2020 - Preliminary draft

We study theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others' behavior affects dishonesty. We ran a laboratory experiment with 560 participants inspired by the "observed game" developed by Kajackaite and Gneezy (2017). We find that the extensive (the fraction of...

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