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Testing the Single-Peakedness of Other-Regarding Preferences
Levati, Maria Vittoria - 2019
We test an implication that is common to all prominent theories of outcome-based other-regarding preferences: the ordinal preference ranking of an agent over a finite number of alternatives lying on any straight line in the space of material payoffs to oneself and some other agent must be...
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Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods
Rand, David G.; Yoeli, Erez; Hoffman, Moshe - 2015
large body of research demonstrates the power of “reciprocity” for inducing cooperation: When others know that you have … they think others are also cooperating; and people can develop habits of cooperation that shape their default inclinations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037089
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Social Preferences on Networks
Rezaei, Sarah - 2020
We develop a model of social preferences for network games and study its predictions in a local public goods game with multiple equilibria. The key feature of our model is that players' social preferences are heterogeneous. This gives room for disagreement between players about the “right”...
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Expressed Preferences and Behavior in Experimental Games
Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - 2004
Participants in experimental games typically can only choose actions, without making comments about other participants' future actions. In sequential two-person games, we allow first movers to express a preference between responder choices. We find that responder behavior differs substantially...
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Social preferences on networks
Rezaei, Sarah; Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz; … - 2021
We develop a model of social preferences for network games and study its predictions in a local public goods game with multiple equilibria. The key feature is that players' social preferences are heterogeneous. This gives room for disagreement between players about the "right" payoff ordering....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341638
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‘I’m Just a Soul Whose Intentions Are Good’ : The Role of Communication in Noisy Repeated Games
Arechar, Antonio - 2017
participants lied at least occasionally). As a result, communication has a positive effect on cooperation when the payoff matrix … makes the returns to cooperation high; when the payoff matrix gives a lower return to cooperation, communication reduces … overall cooperation. These results suggest that cheap talk communication can promote cooperation in repeated games, but only …
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Does Cheap Talk Promote Coordination Under Asymmetric Information? An Experimental Study on Global Games
Duan, Jieyi - 2020
This study experimentally investigates the role of two-sided cheap talk in decisions under asymmetric information. Unlike previous studies, our study also considers endogenous investment timing. In our experiments, subjects play two-player global games with asymmetric information. Before making...
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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?
Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - 2014
This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences - like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi-maximin, etc.; (ii) deal-responsiveness - reacting to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406346
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Guilt-averse or reciprocal? : looking at behavioural motivations in the trust game
Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016
For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation between back-transfers and second- order beliefs of the trustor: While reciprocity models predict a negative correlation, guilt-aversion models predict a positive one. This paper...
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When are Women More Generous than Men?
Deck, Cary A. - 2010
Previous research on gender differences in behavior has led to seemingly contradictory findings about generosity. From data generated by 290 subject pairs, we find that women are more sensitive than men to the costs of generous actions when deciding whether to be generous. The factors that...
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