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The people's hired guns? : experimentally testing the inclination of prosecutors to abuse the vague definition of crimes
Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja - 2011
; prosecution ; doctrinal ambiguity ; vaguely defined crimes ; duty ; DOSPERT … signalling game and test it experimentally. If we have participants play the naked game, at least a minority plays the game …. Our experimental prosecutors behave like textbook legal idealists, and follow the urge of duty. -- Risk aversion …
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Can we manage first impressions in cooperation problems? : an experimental study on "Broken (and Fixed) Windows"
Engel, Christoph; Kube, Sebastian; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011
-handed mechanism to sustain cooperation and test its performance in a rich laboratory environment. The mechanism moderates cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007141
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Social preferences and lying aversion in children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900728
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Are you risk averse over other people's money?
Chakravarty, Sujoy; Harrison, Glenn W.; Haruvy, Ernan E.; … - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 901-913
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It’s Not My Money : An Experiment on Risk Aversion and the House-Money Effect
Martinez, Luis R. - 2010
The house-money effect – people's tendency to be more daring with easily-gotten money – is a behavioral pattern that poses questions about the external validity of experiments in economics: to what extent do people behave in experiments like they would have in a real-life situation, given...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656180
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Loss aversion and lying behavior : theory, estimation and empirical evidence
Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie to avoid receiving the low payoff the lower the ex-ante probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594148
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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Self-control and crime revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk taking and antisocial behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017
link between self-control and criminal behavior. We test whether individuals with lower self-control behave in a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686115