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Altruism or Artefact? A Note on Dictator Game Giving

Bardsley, Nicholas - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2005

Experimental dictator games have been used to explore unselfish behaviour. Evidence is presented here, however, that subjects’ generosity can be reversed by allowing them to take money from a partner. Dictator game giving therefore does not stem from orthodox social preferences. It can be...

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Features of Experimentally Observed Bounded Rationality

Selten, Reinhard - University of Bonn, Germany

analysis, strategic reasoning and strategy construction based on reciprocity and fairness, avoidance of circular concepts in …

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Leadership and Overcoming Coordination Failure with Asymmetric Costs

Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J.; Fatas, Enrique - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2006

We study how the heterogeneity of agents affects the extent to which changes in financial incentives can pull a group out of a situation of coordination failure. We focus on the connections between cost asymmetries and leadership. Experimental subjects interact in groups of four in a series of...

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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?

Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - 2014

This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382716

Testing the framework of other-regarding preferences

Levati, M. Vittoria; Nicholas, Aaron; Rai, Birendra - 2011

-regarding preferences ; social preferences ; decision making under risk ; single-peaked preferences ; experiments …

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Context and interpretation in laboratory experiments : the case of reciprocity

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Miettinen, Topi; Rai, Birendra K. - 2010

experimental task can adversely affect the interpretation of data from laboratory experiments. We discuss why the two common … experimental designs (between-subjects and within-subjects) used to conduct experiments may fail to sufficiently account for this … concern. An alternative design for laboratory experiments is proposed which may alleviate this concern especially in studies …

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Intention-based reciprocity and the hidden costs of control

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2011

by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding …-out if individuals differ in their propensity for reciprocity and preferences are private information. Not being controlled …. -- extrinsic and intrinsic motivation ; crowding-out ; intention-based reciprocity ; incomplete information ; hidden costs of …

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Committees and Reciprocity

Hahn, Volker - 2006

behavior that constitutes an equilibrium without reciprocity also represents an equilibrium when people are reciprocally … reciprocity. Moreover, in a dynamic framework we show that psychological log-rolling equilibria may exist, where some agents …

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Intention-based reciprocity and the hidden costs of control

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191088

What is Trustworthiness and What Drives It?

Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy … - 2014

This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905947