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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023
underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further …, only fairness views play a significant mediating role between status and allocation differences, suggesting this is the …
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I lie? We lie! Why? : experimental evidence on an dishonesty shift
Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - 2016
deciding as a group member. We observe a strong dishonesty shift. This shift is mainly driven by communication within groups …
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Lying, spying, sabotaging : procedures and consequences
Chlaß, Nadine; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
We study individuals who can choose how to compete with an opponent for one nonzero payoff. They can either nudge themselves into a fair set of rules where they have the same information and actions as their opponent, or into unfair rules where they spy, sabotage or fabricate their opponent's...
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Lying, spying, sabotaging : procedures and consequences
Chlaß, Nadine; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
Do individuals prefer to compete fairly, or unfairly with an opponent? We study individuals who can choose how to compete for one ex-post nonzero payoff. They can either nudge themselves into a fair set of rules where they have the same information and actions as their opponent, or into unfair...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349331
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Lying, spying, sabotaging : procedures and consequences
Chlaß, Nadine; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
Do individuals prefer to compete fairly, or unfairly with an opponent? We study individuals who can choose how to compete for one ex-post nonzero payoff. They can either nudge themselves into a fair set of rules where they have the same information and actions as their opponent, or into unfair...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492064
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Behaviorally Efficient Remedies – An Experiment
Engel, Christoph - 2017
Under common law, the standard remedy for breach of contract is expectation damages. Under continental law, the standard is specific performance. The common law solution is ex post efficient. But is it also ex ante efficient? We use experimental methods to test whether knowing that...
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Contribution-based grouping under noise
Nax, Heinrich H.; Murphy, Ryan O.; Duca, Stefano; … - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-23
Many real-world mechanisms are “noisy” or “fuzzy”, that is the institutions in place to implement them operate with non-negligible degrees of imprecision and error. This observation raises the more general question of whether mechanisms that work in theory are also robust to more...
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The people's hired guns? : experimentally testing the inclination of prosecutors to abuse the vague definition of crimes
Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja - 2011
Legal realists expect prosecutors to be selfish. If they get the defendant convicted, this helps them advance their careers. If the odds of winning on the main charge are low, prosecutors have a second option. They can exploit the ambiguity of legal doctrine and charge the defendant for vaguely...
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The coevolution of behavior and normative expectations : customary law in the lab
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011
Customary law has been criticized from very different angles. Rational choice theorists claim that what looks like custom is nothing but self-interest. Positivists doubt that anything beyond consent assumes the force of law. In this paper, we adopt an experimental approach to test these claims....
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Social preferences and lying aversion in children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
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