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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 - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226923
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009161317
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Does payoff equity facilitate coordination? : a test of Schelling's conjecture
López-Pérez, Raúl; Pintér, Ágnes; Kiss, Hubert J. - 2013
Starting from Schelling (1960), several game theorists have conjectured that payoff equity might facilitate coordination in normal-form games with multiple equilibria - the more equitable equilibrium might be selected either because fairness makes it focal or because many individuals dislike...
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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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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
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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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300140
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308480
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Cubitt, Robin P. - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016245
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Cubitt, Robin P. - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018458