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Do self-committers mind commitment by others? : an experiment on weak paternalism
Uhl, Matthias - 2010
identified. -- Self-commitment ; weak paternalism ; freedom of choice ; agency ; moral judgments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669965
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Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance
Lamberton, Cait Poynor - 2014
Two experiments show that eliciting taxpayer preferences on government spending -- providing taxpayer agency … stated take-up rate of a questionable tax loophole. Providing taxpayer agency recouples tax payments with the public services … compliance with tax dues. With tax noncompliance costing the US government $385 billion annually, providing taxpayer agency could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061834
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Responsibility effects in decision making under risk
Pahlke, Julius; Strasser, Sebastian; Vieider, Ferdinand M. - 2011
We systematically explore decision situations in which a decision maker bears responsibility for somebody else's outcomes as well as for her own in situations of payoff equality. In the gain domain we confirm the intuition that being responsible for somebody else's payoffs increases risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008821653
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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316436
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The coevolution of behavior and normative expectations: Customary law in the lab
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011
Customary law has been criticized from very different angles. Rational choice theorists claim that what looks like custom is nothing but self-interest. Positivists doubt that anything beyond consent assumes the force of law. In this paper, we adopt an experimental approach to test these claims....
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Letting off Steam! Experimental Evidence on Inappropriate Punishment
Khachatryan, Elina; Bühren, Christoph - 2020
Aggression is displaced when provocations cannot be directly retaliated against and when it is redirected towards a target innocent of any wrongdoing. While this phenomenon is widespread, it has not been widely explored in experimental economics. We fill this gap and find that a sizeable...
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Beware of broken windows! : first impressions in public-good experiments
Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009
Broken Windows: the metaphor has changed New York and Los Angeles. Yet it is far from undisputed whether the broken windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we show that first impressions are indeed causal for cooperativeness in three different institutional...
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Fairness and cheating
Houser, Daniel; Vetter, Stefan; Winter, Joachim - 2010
We present evidence from a laboratory experiment showing that individuals who believe they were treated unfairly in an interaction with another person are more likely to cheat in a subsequent unrelated game. Specifically, subjects first participated in a dictator game. They then flipped a coin...
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Estimation of the house money effect using hurdle models
Engel, Christoph; Moffat, Peter G. - 2012
Evidence from an experiment investigating the "house money effect" in the context of a public goods game is reconsidered. Analysis is performed within the framework of the panel hurdle model, in which subjects are assumed to be one of two types: free-riders, and potential contributors. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569530
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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
Legal realists expect prosecutors to be selfish. If they get the defendant convicted, this helps them advance their careers. If the odds of winning on the main charge are low, prosecutors have a second option. They can exploit the ambiguity of legal doctrine and charge the defendant for vaguely...
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