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Strategic behavior across gender : a comparison of female and male expert chess players
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - 2010
probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941764
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Resource scarcity, spite and cooperation
Prediger, Sebastian; Vollan, Björn; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013
Using an experimental approach, this paper examines how scarcity of natural resources affects people's readiness to cooperate or engage in antisocial behavior. The experiments were carried out with pastoralists from southern Namibia, whose livelihoods greatly depend on grazing availability on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753266
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2016
factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability we add the possibility for clients to … identifiabilitiy (leading to several client-advisor interactions over the course of the game) or competition (allowing one advisor to …-telling under competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530053
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017
factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability we add the possibility for clients to … (leading to several client-advisor interactions over the course of the game) or competition (allowing one advisor to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697162
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018
factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability, we add the possibility for clients to … make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. While the combination of competition and reputation …. Thus, our results suggest that a voluntary component can act as a substitute for either competition or reputation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881706
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Reference points, social norms, and fairness in contract renegotiations : conference paper
Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2013
Do contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior? We address this question in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and economically important impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342843
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Strategic Behavior Across Gender : A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players
Gerdes, Christer - 2010
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147122
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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds
Li, King King - 2010
This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688574
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Equity versus efficiency? : Evidence from three-person generosity experiments
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; … - 2010
In two-person generosity games the proposer's agreement payoff is exogenously given whereas that of the responder is endogenously determined by the proposer's choice of the pie size. Earlier results for two-person generosity games show that participants seem to care more for efficiency than for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952438
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Dominance and submission : social status biases economic sanctions
Essen, Emma von; Ranehill, Eva - 2011 - First version: 2011-01, This version: 2011-04
Social hierarchy is persistent in all almost all societies. Social norms and their enforcement are part of sustaining hierarchical systems. This paper combines social status and norm enforcement, by introducing status in a dictator game with third party punishment. Status is conveyed by surname;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798671