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Playing a game or making a decision? Methodological issues in the measurement of distributional preferences
Greiff, Matthias; Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - In: Games 9 (2018) 4, pp. 1-25
In terms of role assignment and informational characteristics, different contexts have been used when measuring distributional preferences. This could be problematic as contextual variance may inadvertently muddle the measurement process. We use a within-subjects design and systemically vary...
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Anticipated communication in the ultimatum game
Capizzani, Mario; Mittone, Luigi; Musau, Andrew; … - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-20
Anticipated verbal feedback in a dictator game has been shown to induce altruistic behavior. However, in the ultimatum game which, apart from generosity, entails a strategic component since a proposer may (rightly) fear that the responder will reject a low offer, it remains an open question...
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Bimodal bidding in experimental all-pay auctions
Ernst, Christiane; Thöni, Christian - In: Games 4 (2013) 4, pp. 608-623
We report results from experimental first-price, sealed-bid, all-pay auctions for a good with a common and known value. We observe bidding strategies in groups of two and three bidders and under two extreme information conditions. As predicted by the Nash equilibrium, subjects use mixed...
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Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; van Veldhuizen, Roel - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 83 (2021), pp. --
experiment (N = 784) that varies the degree to which the decision to compete, and its outcome, is publicly observable. We find …
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Nudging cooperation in public goods provision
Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 88 (2020), pp. --
This paper experimentally studies two simple interventions that an authority figure might employ to promote cooperation in a public goods game when accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to nudge participants to higher contribution levels by labeling...
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Incentive magnitude effects in experimental games: Bigger is not necessarily better
Pulford, Briony D.; Colman, Andrew M.; Loomes, Graham - In: Games 9 (2018) 1, pp. 1-10
In experimental games, task-related incentives are payments to experimental subjects that vary according to their …-form games under task-related incentives of conventional magnitude and compared them with choices and reasons in the same games … under incentives five times as large. Both strategy choices and self-reported reasons for choices were almost …
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Fairness preferences in a bilateral trade experiment
Ciccone, Alice; Rogeberg, Ole; Braaten, Ragnhild Haugli - In: Games 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17
Is the willingness to make trades influenced by how the total gains from trade are split between the trading partners? We present results from a bilateral trade game (n = 128) where all participants were price-takers and trading pairs faced one of three exogenously imposed trading prices. The...
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Measuring trust in institutions and its causal effect
Penczynski, Stefan P.; Santana, Maria Isabel - In: Quantitative Economics 15 (2024) 1, pp. 213-243
We propose a novel way of measuring trust in institutions, which draws on the experimental method used to elicit time … a lab-in-the-field setting in the Philippines, we measure trust in two different financial institutions. Additionally … institution increases trust and changes individual financial behavior. We find that eligible individuals significantly increase …
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Beyond reductionism: Multidisciplinary insights approach for an effective climate change and sustainability policy
Strzałkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2019) 4, pp. 1351-1379
Climate change and other sustainability problems represent unprecedented challenges to humanity today. Because of such challenges there is a need for fundamental social changes of current unsustainable society. There is essential advanced interdisciplinary scientific contribution for informing...
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The collapse of cooperation: the endogeneity of institutional break-up and its asymmetry with emergence
Cordes, Christian; Elsner, Wolfram; Graebner, Claudius; … - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 31 (2021) 4, pp. 1291-1315
Decline and break-up of institutionalized cooperation, at all levels, has occurred frequently. Some of its concomitants, such as international migration, have become topical in the globalized world. Aspects of the phenomenon have also become known as failing states. However, the focus in most...
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