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„Folk economics“ is the economic ‘theory’ of common sense, and analogously „folk ethics“ is the moral ‘theory’ of …„Folk Economics“ ist die Wirtschafts-‚Theorie‘ und analog ist „Folk Ethics“ die Moral-"Theorie" des gesundes …
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The question of whether lawyers and managers behave selfishly or fairly has inspired discussion for a long time. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we investigate this question empirically and provide first...
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For decades, experimental economics has been very interested in behavior that could be characterized as practicing solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a bridge between these two endeavors that, thus far, had...
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Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...
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Departures from "economic man" behavior in many games in which fairness is a salient characteristic are now well documented in the experimental economics literature. These data have inspired development of models of social preferences that assume agents have preferences for equity and efficiency...
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In this paper we propose to account for the observed behavior of players in the Ultimatum Game by a new thesis. According to this, players are motivated by both fairness and self-regarding concerns in this game, but they do not have at their disposal a principle that could trade-off one...
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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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This paper reports the results of experiments involving a 3-person coalition formation game with an ultimatum bargaining character. The grand coalition was always the efficient coalition decision, whereas the values of the 2-person coalitions are varied such that they lead to an efficiency loss...
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deemed liberal either because they emphasize political institutions that embody liberal values (political liberalism) or … because individuals make up their mind in a specifically liberalʺ way of forming ethical judgment (philosophical liberalism …). Seen in this light the Paradox of Liberalism is of theoretical or philosophical interest but not a practical problem of …
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