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Time-Inconsistent Generosity: Present Bias across Individual and Social Contexts
Kölle, Felix; Wenner, Lukas - 2019
interpersonal trade-offs. In a longitudinal experiment subjects make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099067
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Still different after all these years: Solidarity in East and West Germany
Brosig, Jeannette; Helbach, Christoph; Ockenfels, Axel; … - 2010
controlled laboratory conditions. Comparing solidarity behavior revealed by East and West Germans in 1995 and 2009, we find that … East Germans persistently show much less solidarity than West Germans. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall …, social norms of solidarity have not converged. This suggests that norms of social behavior change much more slowly than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271432
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Dictating the Risks - Experimental Evidence on Norms of Giving in Risky Environments
Lange, Andreas; Brock, J. Michelle; Ozbay, Erkut Y. - 2010
We study if and how social preferences extend to risky environments. By providing experimental evidence on different versions of dictator games with risky outcomes, we establish that social preferences of players who give in standard dictator games are best described by concerns for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273622
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Altruistic Economic Behaviors and Implicit Worldviews
Ogaki, Masao; Lee, SunYoun; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Kwon, Hyeog Ug - 2014
Korea, Japan and the US. Altruism and intergenerational transfers have been widely studied in economics (Fehr and Schmidt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400209
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The Virtue Ethics Hypothesis: Is there a nexus between virtues and well-being?
Koch, Christian - 2013
Why do some people behave pro-socially while others do not? Using an experimental design based on Konow and Earley (JPubE, 2008), I investigate a reason already proposed by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics: He claims that there is a nexus between virtues and well-being and that enduring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329559
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The influences of social context on the measurement of distributional preferences
Greiff, Matthias; Ackermann, Kurt; Murphy, Ryan O. - 2016
Different social 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 measure distributional preferences in resource allocation tasks with role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527656
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Information Avoidance, Selective Exposure, and Fake(?) News - A Market Experiment
Momsen, Katharina; Ohndorf, Markus - 2020
information is potentially erroneous. In our laboratory experiment, subjects purchase products associated with co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287925
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Choosing Who You Are: The Structure and Behavioral Effects of Revealed Identification Preferences
Hett, Florian; Kröll, Markus; Mechtel, Mario - 2017
novel laboratory experiment based on a revealed preference approach to analyze how individuals choose their identity. Facing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712736
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Decisions under Uncertainty in Social Contexts
Rau, Holger; Müller, Stephan - 2017
This paper theoretically and experimentally studies decision-making in risky and social environments. We explore the interdependence of individual risk attitudes and inequality aversion as two decisive behavioral determinants in such contexts. Our model and the data demonstrate that individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712741
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Betrayal Aversion and the Effectiveness of Incentive Contracts
Rau, Holger; Müller, Stephan - 2018
aversion may either undermine or underpin the effectiveness of bonus contracts to induce effort. The data of our experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892143