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The framing of games and the psychology of strategic choice
Dufwenberg, Martin (contributor);  … - 2006
Psychological game theory can provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs, and beliefs influence motivations. We explain this point theoretically, and explore its empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2-factorial framing design of one-shot public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385854
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I'll do it by myself as I knew it all along' : on the failure of hindsight-biased principals to delegate optimally
Danz, David; Hüber, Frank; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2013
prediction is tested experimentally. In an online experiment that was conducted during the FIFA World Cup 2010 participants were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009693418
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An eye-tracking study of feature-based choice in one-shot games
Devetag, Giovanna; Di Guida, Sibilla; Polonio, Luca - 2013
We analyze subjects' eye movements while they make decisions in a series of one-shot games. The majority of them perform a partial and selective analysis of the payoff matrix, often ignoring the payoffs of the opponent and/or paying attention only to specific cells. Our results suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709528
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Concern for relative standing and deception
Galanis, Spyros; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404042
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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
Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811006
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Do higher achievers cheat less? : an experiment of self-revealing individual cheating
Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi; Yaniv, Gideon - 2017
the results of a two-round experiment designed to expose student cheating at the individual level and correlate it with … exam score (PES). The experiment involved two classes of third-year economics students incentivized by a competitive reward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641580
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(Dis)honest politicians and the value of transparency for campaign promises
Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2020
effects of opacity in a laboratory experiment and find that opacity leads to more generous promises, but also to more promise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231501
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Explaining institutional change : why elected politicians implement direct democracy
Hugh-Jones, David - 2008
creating these institutions. I build a model of direct democracy that explains why a representative might benefit from tying … that some politicians benefit from the introduction of direct democracy, since they are more likely to survive … representative elections: direct democracy credibly prevents politicians from realising extreme outcomes. Historical evidence from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796322
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Building Democracy in Quicksand : Altruism, Empire and the United States
Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2004
the inherent difficulty of planting democracy in so inhospitable a social environment as Iraq's. This paper examines the … society in making democracy work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071538
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Keep your Enemies Closer : Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections
Di Tella, Rafael; Kotti, Randy; Le Pennec-Çaldichoury, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322890