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Unethical behavior in organizations is usually associated with the risk of negative consequences for the organization and for the involved managers if being detected. The existing experimental literature in economics has so far mainly focused on the analysis of unethical behavior in environments...
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
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Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future has not been thoroughly investigated so far. We study experimentally the causal effect of group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418242
, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029172
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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between themselves and a group of recipients. The experiment consists of two stages: first, individuals play a standard …
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Do groups exhibit more or less inequality aversion than individuals? Although the previous literature has shown that in many environments individuals in groups make more selfish decisions than when deciding in isolation, we find that individuals express more inequality aversion when making...
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Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
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Time is a crucial determinant of deception, since some misreporting opportunities come as a surprise and require an … experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition … process about the deception opportunity. We find that time pressure leads to more honesty compared to sufficient contemplation …
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