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Learning to Make Strategic Moves: Experimental Evidence

Poulsen, Anders - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

moves can appear somewhat counter-intuitive, we conducted an experiment to see if people make the predicted strategic move …. The experiment uses a simple bargaining situation. A player can make a strategic move of committing to not seeing what the …

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The Demand for Punishment

Carpenter, Jeffrey - 2002

often be called rational. The current experiment illustrates this point with an example. Assuming self-interested agents …

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What Norms Trigger Punishment

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2007

Many experiments have demonstrated the power of norm enforcement-peer monitoring and punishment-to maintain, or even increase, contributions in social dilemma settings, but little is known about the underlying norms that monitors use to make punishment decisions. Using a large sample of...

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No Switchbacks: Rethinking Aspiration-Based Dynamics in the Ultimatum Game

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2003

Aspiration-based evolutionary dynamics have recently been used to model the evolution of fair play in the ultimatum game showing that incredible threats to reject low offers persist in equilibrium. We focus on two extensions of this analysis: we experimentally test whether assumptions about...

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They Come to Play: Supply Effects in an Economic Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Liati, Allison; Vickery, Brian - 2006

Our experiment challenges the standard, social preference, interpretation of choices in the double blind dictator game …

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Why Punish: Social Reciprocity and the Enforcement of Prosocial Norms

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter; Ong'ong'a, Okomboli - 2003

Recently economists have become interested in why people who face social dilemmas in the experimental lab use the seemingly incredible threat of punishment to deter free riding. Three theories with evolvutionary microfoundations have been developed to explain punishment. We survey these theories...

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Cooperation, Trust, and Social Capital in Southeast Asian Urban Slums

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Daniere, Amrita; Takahashi, Lois - 2003

We conduct experiments in the field with people who live in urban slums to measure trust and cooperation and to see how behavior varies with demographic factors and associational measures of social capital. Overall, we find high rates of contributions among Thai and Vietnamese participants in a...

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Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2005

report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative reponse. Our experiment confirms the existence of …

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The trade off between time and money: Is there a difference between real and hypothetical choices?

Isacsson, Gunnar - Transportekonomi, Väg- och Transportforskninginstitut (VTI) - 2007

This paper reports the results from one experiment and one quasi-experiment used to investigate the potential problem … of “hypothetical bias” in surveys involving an individual’s valuation of time. The experiment compares hypothetical and … real choices regarding an offer to participate in a survey in exchange for money. The quasi-experiment compares …

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