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Harm on an innocent outsider as a lubricant of cooperation: An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012
participants more pessimistic. However conditional on their beliefs participants are more, not less cooperative if cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286690
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The behavioral effect of Pigovian regulation : evidence from a field experiment
Lanz, Bruno; Wurlod, Jules-Daniel; Panzone, Luca; … - 2017 - This version: January 2017
Pigovian regulation provides monetary penalties/rewards to incentivize prosocial behavior, and may thereby trigger behavioral effects beyond a more standard response associated with a change in relative prices. This paper quantifies the magnitude of these behavioral effects using data from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622497
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
dampens cooperation, though only slightly. Surprisingly, externalities are immaterial. If we control for beliefs, they even … foster cooperation. If we combine both qualifications and do not control for beliefs, we only find an uncertainty effect. If … we add beliefs as a control variable, we only find that externalities enhance cooperation, even if gains from collusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281843
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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011
dampens cooperation, though only slightly. Surprisingly, externalities are immaterial. If we control for beliefs, they even … foster cooperation. If we combine both qualifications and do not control for beliefs, we only find an uncertainty effect. If … we add beliefs as a control variable, we only find that externalities enhance cooperation, even if gains from collusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822475
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Effects of information on intentionality attributions and judgments : punishing negligence and praising the caring for information
Haupt, Andreas; Uske, Tobias - 2010
Understanding how observers attribute intentionality to people in the focus of their attention helps in shedding light …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003980539
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We are not alone : the impact of externalities on public good provision
Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2009
Providing public goods is hard, because providers are best off free-riding. Is it even harder if one group's public good is a public bad for another group or, conversely, gives the latter a windfall profit? We experimentally study public goods provision embedded in a social context and find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877140
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Harm on an innocent outsider as a lubricant of cooperation : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012
participants more pessimistic. However conditional on their beliefs participants are more, not less cooperative if cooperation … Game ; Beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490177
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Give Everybody a Voice! The Power of Voting in a Public Goods Experiment with Externalities
Engel, Christoph - 2014
We study the effect of voting when insiders' public goods provision may affect passive outsiders. Without voting insiders' contributions do not differ, regardless of whether outsiders are positively or negatively affected or even unaffected. Voting on the recommended contribution level enhances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044538
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Behavioral Externalities of Process Automation
Beer, Ruth; Qi, Anyan; Ríos, Ignacio - 2022
We study the behavioral effects of process automation on human workers interacting with automated tasks. We introduce a stylized model with two workers who complete their tasks sequentially, working toward a joint project to obtain a fixed payment plus a variable bonus that depends on how early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235423
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How to protect entitlements : an experiment
Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2017
In a full-information, zero transactions costs world, the degree of protection afforded to an entitlement does not affect the likelihood of efficient trade. In reality, imperfect information is often inevitable. Specifically, a party will usually have incomplete information about fairness norms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633871