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Downsizing the labor force by low and high profit firms : an experimental analysis
Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - 2008
One may hope to capture the behavioral and emotional effects of downsizing the laborforce in rather abstract settings as an ultimatum game (see Fischer et al. (2008)), or try to explore downsizing in its more natural principalagent scenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter...
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Transparency and Reciprocal Behavior in Employment Relations
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2021
The impact of transparency on the extent of reciprocal behavior is investigated in a simple repeated gift exchange experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals' payoffs are determined by a random component. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319706
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On the malleability of fairness ideals : order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks
Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015
How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …
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Exploring group behavior in a power-to-take video experiment
Bosman, Ronald; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Winden, Frans A. … - 2002 - This version: May 2002
; (3) perceptions of fairness are prone to the so-called self-serving bias. (4) expectations are often not consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539904
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Reaching for the stars : an experimental study of the consumption value of social approval
Greiff, Matthias; Paetzel, Fabian - 2012
We present a theoretical model of a linear public good game in which heterogeneous players express social approval after observing contributions. The model explains how social approval is expressed and predicts positive contributions if subjects have a preference for social approval. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427179
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Provision of multilevel public goods through positive externalities : experimental evidence
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2012
The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487801
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More than outcomes : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2011
Recent research has cast some doubt on the general validity of outcome-based models of social preferences. We develop a model based on cognitive dissonance that focuses on the importance of self-image. An experiment (a dictator game variant) tests the model. First, we find that subjects whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129721
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Unravelling conditional cooperation : reciprocity, inequity aversion, and anchoring in public goods provision
Cappelletti, Dominique; Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo - 2011
Extensive research on human cooperation in social dilemmas has shown that individuals condition their behaviour upon the behaviour of others. However, few attempts have been made to disentangle the motivations backing conditional cooperation. We try to assess the relative importance of three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313091
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On the context-dependency of inequality aversion : experimental evidence and a stylized model
Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - 2012
We consider three-person envy games with a proposer, a responder, and a dummy player. In this class of games, the proposer, rather than allocating a constant pie, chooses the pie size which the responder can then accept or reject while the dummy player can only refuse his own share. While the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544389
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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games
Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009
successful in terms of fit to the experimental data: EQRE, IBE, EIBE, QRE and Nash equilibrium. -- Fairness ; Inequity aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811006