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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...
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Social environment and forms of governance : monetary and non-monetary punishment and the role of emotions
Bicskei, Marianna; Lankau, Matthias; Bizer, Kilian - 2014
The question to what extent social environment affects how individuals govern their groups, has received no special academic attention, yet. Within the framework of a ten-period public goods experi&ment we analyse how social identity affects subjects ́choice of punishment: They may either...
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Coordination in the El Farol Bar problem : the role of social preferences and social networks
Chen, Shu-Heng; Gostoli, Umberto - 2013
In this paper, the authors continue the pursuit of the self-coordination mechanism as studied in the El Farol Bar problem. However, in addition to efficiency (the optimal use of the public facility), they are also interested in the distribution of the public resources among all agents. Hence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713788
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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor);  … - 2005
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280790
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Power symmetry and the development of trust in interdependent relationships : the mediating role of goal congruence
Cuevas, Javier Marcos; Julkunen, Saara; Gabrielsson, Mika - In: Industrial marketing management : the international … 48 (2015), pp. 149-159
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Group selection : the quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite...
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Damming trans-boundary rivers : a welfare analysis of conflict and cooperation
Zeng, Yuyu; Houba, Harold; Dinar, Ariel; Marence, Miroslav - 2016
of institutional factors: (1) each country pursues its own interests, (2) efficient cooperation along the river and (3 …) partial cooperation among neighboring countries. We conduct cost-benefit analyses for these scenarios incorporating dam … show that cooperation between Laos and Cambodia internalizes the negative impacts of dam construction in Laos on fishery in …
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Bargaining and conflict with up-front investments : how power asymmetries matter
Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2019
We examine settings - such as litigation, labor relations, or arming and war - in which players first make non-contractible up-front investments to improve their bargaining position and gain advantage for possible future conflict. Bargaining is efficient ex post, but we show that a player may...
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Conditional cooperation on three continents
Kocher, Martin; Cherry, Todd L.; Kroll, Stephan; … - 2007
We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral … regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the U ….S.A. than anywhere else. -- conditional cooperation ; public goods ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729297
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Anticipatory anxiety and wishful thinking
Engelmann, Jan; Lebreton, Maël; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2019
It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs or "wishful thinking". However, there is little direct causal evidence for this effect. In our experiment, participants perform a visual pattern recog- nition task where some...
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