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Willingness to take risk depends on whether the risk affects others as well as oneself and on how the risk affects oneś … apparent whether the unfair safe social outcome benefits them or the other. Subjects are also more risk averse when facing … tendency to avoid social lotteries that impose a risk on the other. An attempt to reconcile those findings with standard models …
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I experimentally examine whether feedback about others' choices provides an anchor for decision-making under ambiguity. In a between-subjects design I vary whether subjects learn choices made individually by a "peer" in a first part when facing the same task a second time, and whether prospects...
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risk. Furthermore, we determine whether subjects are averse to collective risk - the variability in the sum of payoffs of … the other. The first presentation draws attention to inequality in payoffs, the second to collective risk. We find that … risk changes choice only marginally and not significantly, though in the direction of collective risk reduction. We …
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Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient...
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second source of noise is present because of payoff risk, which reduces the correlation between expected and realized payoffs …. We manipulate payoff risk using a 2x2 design: payoffs from contest investments are either risky (as in standard contests … safe (as in standard contests) or risky. We find that Nash equilibrium rates go up to 100% when payoff risk is not present …
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for measuring the depth of thinking. In this paper, we find that choices in the 11-20 game are confounded with risk … aversion; hence, the depth of thinking measured is confounded with risk aversion. We also theoretically show that risk aversion … are not correlated with risk aversion …
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I analyze subjects' sensitivity to parametric change that does not affect the theoretical prediction. I find that increasing the value of an illegal transaction to a briber and reducing the penalties to both culprits leads to more bribes being paid but does not affect the cooperation of the...
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We study the effects of loaded instructions in a bribery experiment. We find a strong gender effect: men and women react differently to real-world framing. The treatment effect becomes significant once we allow for gender specific coefficients. Our paper contributes to the (small) literature on...
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nondeterrent sanction for those who do not comply. My experimental design allows me to disentangle to what extent the effect of the …
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nondeterrent sanction for those who do not comply. My experimental design allows me to disentangle to what extent the effect of the …
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