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Providing global public goods : electoral delegation and cooperation
Kocher, Martin; Tan, Fangfang; Yu, Jing - 2014
This paper experimentally examines the effect of electoral delegation on providing global public goods shared by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396026
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On the interpretation of world values survey trust question : global expectations vs. local beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings from one strand of the fractured literature - the WVS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457340
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Do Equity Preferences Matter in Climate Negotiations? An Experimental Investigation
Dannenberg, Astrid - 2008
This paper investigates in how far equity preferences may matter for climate negotiations. For this purposes we conducted a simple experiment with people who have been involved in international climate policy. The experiment, which was run via the Internet, consisted of two simple non-strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726146
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On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question : Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings from one strand of the fractured literature – the WVS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993949
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Gender Differences in Lying in Sender-Receiver Games : A Meta-Analysis
Capraro, Valerio - 2018
Whether there are gender di erences in lying has been largely debated in the past decade. Previous studies found mixed results. To shed light on this topic, here I report a meta-analysis of 8,728 distinct observations, collected in 65 Sender-Receiver game treatments, by 14 research groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934493
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Unintended Consequences of Corruption Indices
Chapkovski, Philipp - 2023
Using the results of a pre-registered online experiment, this paper examines how information about a corruption in a … information participants had about their potential partners’ regions of origin and asked them to (a) estimate the proportion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358537
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The behaviour of corporate actors : a survey of the empirical literature
Engel, Christoph (contributor) - 2008
Much of behavioural research, both in economics and in psychology, is limited in one respect: it tests isolated individuals. In many practically relevant situations, there are discernible actors, but these actors are not individuals. Rather firms, regulatory bodies, associations, countries or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003731309
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Every man for himself : gender, norms and survival in martime disasters
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - 2012
Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of 'women and children first' gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521635
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Every man for himself! : gender, norms and survival in maritime disasters
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - 2012
Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of 'women and children first' gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530692
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Leadership and climate policy
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
This paper examines leadership in relation to supplying a global public good. Both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris …? When does leadership improve global welfare? The answer depends on how transparent the leader’s abatement technology is for … the followers. When there is no transparency and the leader has to abate to signal the abatement cost, leadership reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509563