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No response to changes in marginal incentives in one-shot public good experiments

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023

participants make a single provision decision. Data was collected using three "data collection processes": an online experiment … conducted on Prolific, an online experiment conducted with a subject pool of university students, and an experiment implemented … group earnings. Based on a total sample size of 952 participants, we find that, unlike results from previous experiments …

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Are the Treasures of Game Theory Ambiguous?

Eichberger, Jürgen; Kelsey, David - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und …; … - 2008

behaviour in experiments. For other payoff parameters, however,actual behaviour deviates consistently from that predicted by …

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How to Preserve a Fortune: An Experimental Comparison of Foundations and Direct Transfers to the Heir

Güth, Werner; Koschmieder, Kurt-Dieter; Levati, Maria … - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von …

Direct transfers allow heirs to freely use what has been passed on to them. Bequeathers who do not trust their descendants to make proper use of the fortune may prefer investing it in a safe foundation, thereby limiting their descendants’ autonomy. In our study we compare experimentally these...

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Endogenous preemption on both sides of a market

Güth, Werner; Müller, Wieland; Potters, Jan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung … - 2005

We study a market in which both buyers and sellers can decide to preempt and set theirquantities before market clearing. Will this lead to preemption on both sides of the market,only one side of the market, or to no preemption at all? We nd that preemption tends to beasymmetric in the sense...

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The impact of payo interdependenceon trust and trustworthiness

Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung …

In one-shot investment game experiments where each player's payo is a convexcombination of own and other's prot, trust …

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Leading by example in a public goods experiment with heterogeneity and incomplete information

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Sutter, Matthias; Heijden, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung … - 2005

We study the effects of leadership on the private provision of a public good when group members are heterogeneously endowed. Leadership is implemented as a sequential public goods game where one group member contributes first and all the others follow. Our results show that the presence of a...

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Information Aggregation and Beliefs inExperimental Parimutuel Betting Markets

Koessler, Frédéric; Noussair, Charles; Ziegelmeyer, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung … - 2007

We study sequential parimutuel betting markets with asymmetrically informed bettors, usingan experimental approach. In one treatment, groups of eight participants play twenty repetitionsof a sequential betting game. The second treatment is identical, except that bettors are observedby other...

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Voluntary industry standards : an experimental investigation of a Greek gift

Schmid, Julia - 2015

such, might be unkind. In many experiments it was shown that unkind actions which decrease the other's payoff are punished …

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Information feedback and contest structure in rent-seeking games

Fallucchi, Francesco; Renner, Elke; Sefton, Martin - 2012

We investigate the role of information feedback in rent-seeking games with two different contest structures. In the stochastic contest a contestant wins the entire rent with probability equal to her share of rent-seeking expenditures; in the deterministic contest she receives a share of the rent...

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Reputation and foreclosure with vertical integration : experimental evidence

Möllers, Claudia - 2016

foreclosure in laboratory experiments. In one-shot interactions, upstream firms can choose to build a reputation by revealing …

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