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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252137
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252667
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364769
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Altruistically motivated transfers under uncertainty
Barczyk, Daniel; Kredler, Matthias - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 3, pp. 705-749
-savings problem with exogenous income risk. This gives rise to altruistic transfers and strategic behavior in the consumption … poorer agent also faces incentives to engage in excessive risk-taking because losses from a gamble are absorbed by both while …
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Deal or no deal? : decision-making under risk in a large-payoff game show
Post, Thierry; Baltussen, Guido; Assem, Martijn J. van den - 2006
experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous … outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion decreases after earlier expectations have been shattered by unfavorable … outcomes or surpassed by favorable outcomes. Our results point to reference-dependent choice theories such as prospect theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348343
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Reconciling pro-social vs. selfish behavior : evidence for the role of self-control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - 2010
We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...
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Information sharing in the presence of retailer's risk aversion and altruism
Huang, He; Li, Wenping; Li, Shiying; Xu, Hongyan - In: International transactions in operational research : a … 32 (2025) 1, pp. 406-437
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Unraveling fairness in simple games? : the role of empathy and theory of mind
Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Koppel, Hannes; … - 2010
central in informing behavior in one-shot games. -- Altruism ; Inequality, Empathy ; Theory of Mind ; Behavioral Economics … corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003980496
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Rational Altruism? On Preference Estimation and Dictator Game Experiments
Grech, Philip - 2019
between the two protocols but rejects full rationality as a satisfactory explanatory theory. Our findings indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901701
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Selfless ignorance : too good to be true
Moradi, Homayoon - 2018
We use a range of dictator game experiments to investigate whether people avoid information altruistically. After learning about a product with positive externalities, a consumer may avoid learning the cost of the product so that she does not hesitate to act altruistically. We find that although...
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