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Heterogeneous social preference and the dynamics of free riding in public goods
Fischbacher, Urs (contributor); Gächter, Simon (contributor) - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals’ cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003261927
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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods
Fischbacher, Urs - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783408
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2021
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit … individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316430
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Distributional preferences explain individual behavior across games and time
Hedegaard, Morten; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel; … - 2019
We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009014
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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods
Fischbacher, Urs (contributor); Gächter, Simon (contributor) - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339611
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A within-subject analysis of other-regarding preferences
Blanco, Mariana; Engelmann, Dirk; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2010
-good game) with the same sample of subjects. We elicit two parameters of inequality aversion to test several hypotheses across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008667623
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The impact of distributional preferences on (experimental) markets for expert services
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2009
as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either … ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931304
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How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2015 - This Version: February 2015
Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the quality received, experimental evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479932
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Do Liars Believe? Beliefs and Other-Regarding Preferences in Disclosure Settings
Shields, Timothy W. - 2015
other-regarding preferences. The results of the experiment indicate that 60 percent of senders adopt deceptive strategies by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038329
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The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services
Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2009
as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153013