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Dishonesty and risk-taking : compliance decisions of individuals and groups
Fochmann, Martin; Kocher, Martin; Müller, Nadja; Wolf, … - 2019
Unethical behavior in organizations is usually associated with the risk of negative consequences for the organization and for the involved managers if being detected. The existing experimental literature in economics has so far mainly focused on the analysis of unethical behavior in environments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105157
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Show what you risk - norms for risk taking
Grimm, Stefan - 2018
influenced by their observability due to underlying social norms and social image concerns. This study investigates the impact of …' investments in a risky asset directly to social norms for risk taking that are elicited in an incentivized procedure. I find that … risk taking is not affected by the choice being observed by a matched participant. Nor do investments follow elicited norms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930435
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Risk-tolerant women donate more than men : experimental evidence of dictator games
Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - 2015
In a within-subjects experiment we test the relation of risk preferences and charitable giving. Women not only give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375690
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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Confucianism and preferences : evidence from lab experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201272
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Crime and self-control revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk and social preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345126
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How does the type of subsidization affect investments : experimental evidence
Ackermann, Hagen - 2015
I study how different types of subsidization affect investment decisions in a laboratory experiment. Even though the expected pro t is identical in all treatments, I find highly significant differences between them. In particular, when investment alternatives get subsidized with tax credits the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504557
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Confucianism and Preferences : Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073810
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Economic Behavior Under Alcohol Influence : An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences
Corazzini, Luca - 2014
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053534
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Limited self-knowledge and survey response behavior
Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021
model. Third, we run an experiment to test the model's main predictions in a context where the researcher knows the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588630