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Moral Distance and Moral Motivations in Dictator Games
Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Miller, Luis M. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007
We perform an experimenta linvestigation using a dictator game inwhich individuals must make a moral decision —to give or not to give anamount of money to poor people in the Third World. A questionnaire inwhich the subjects are asked about the reasons for their decision showsthat, at least in...
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Personal Identity in the Dictator Game
Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Paz Espinosa, Maria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008
´This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity indecision making. To this end, it starts by reviewing criticallythe growing literature on economics and identity. Consideringthe ambiguities that the concept of social identity poses, our proposalfocuses on the concept of personal...
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Individual or team decision-making –Causes and consequences of self-selection
Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004
Even though decision-making in small teams is pervasive in business and in private life, littleis known about subjects’ preferences with respect to individual and team decision-making andabout the consequences of respecting these preferences. We report the results from anexperimental...
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The Decision Maker Matters: Individual versus Group Behaviour in Experimental Beauty-Contest Games
Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004
Economics has devoted little attention so far as to whether the type of decision maker matters for economic decisions. However, many important decisions like those on monetary policy or a company’s business strategy are made by (small) groups rather than an individual. We compare behaviour of...
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Time is money –Time pressure, incentives, and the quality of decision-making
Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004
Many decisions in economics and finance have to be made under severe time pressure. Furthermore, payoffs frequently depend on the speed of decision-making, like, for instance, when buying and selling stocks. In this paper, we examine the influence of time pressure and time-dependent incentive...
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Age and the development of trust and reciprocity
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We examine the degree of trust and reciprocity in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different … age groups, ranging from 8 year old primary school children to retired persons in their late sixties. Although both trust … research has devoted surprisingly little attention to their development with age. Our results provide clear evidence that trust …
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Trust in cooperation or ability? - An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866903
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Age and the development of trust and reciprocity
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - 2003
We examine the degree of trust and reciprocity in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005845176
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Trust in cooperation or ability? - An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005845180
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Indirect Reciprocity in Cyclical Networks- An Experimental Study
Greiner, Ben; Levati, Maria Vittoria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
A cyclical network of indirect reciprocity is derived organizing 3- or6-person groups into rings of social interaction where the first individualcan help the second, the second the third, and so on till the last, who inreturn can help the first. Mutual cooperation is triggered by assuming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866914