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Punishment fosters efficiency in the minimum effort coordination game
Le Lec, Fabrice; Matthey, Astrid; Rydval, Ondérej - 2012
Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a repeated minimum effort coordination game. While most groups first experience inefficient coordination, the efficiency increases substantially after introducing an ex post...
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Inferring preferences from choices under uncertainty
Kuzmics, Christoph - 2012
optimal choice (or collection of choices) given this preference relation, there is another preference relation that satisfies … EUOL plus the Savage axioms, for which this choice is also optimal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319975
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Do choices affect preferences? Some doubts and new evidence
Holden, Steinar - 2009
Recent research is exploring the case for choice-induced changes in preferences using the free-choice paradigm of Brehm … (1956). Participants are faced with a choice between items that they have given the same rating of liking, two items at a … time, and it is found that an item not chosen in one choice has a lower tendency of being chosen in a subsequent choice …
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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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Stability of time preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2010
, time preferences are elicited using incentivized choice experiments. The aggregate distributions of discount factors and …
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The effect of ambiguity aversion on reward scheme choice
Kellner, Christian; Riener, Gerhard - 2012
contracts. We test this by presenting agents with a choice between comparative reward schemes and independent contracts, which …
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Ambiguity aversion as a reason to choose tournaments
Kellner, Christian; Riener, Gerhard - 2011
contracts, in contrast to the case where output distributions are known. We do so by presenting agents with a choice between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281634
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Broken punishment networks in public goods games: Experimental evidence
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Sääksvuori, … - 2012
Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions where punishment opportunities are restricted to agents...
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325392