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Eisenkopf, Gerald; Teyssier, Sabrina - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 34 (2013) C, pp. 240-255

that monetary payoffs are not the only motive that determines agents’ decisions. In our experiment we test theoretical …

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Lying and team incentives

Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 34 (2013) C, pp. 1-7

We investigate the influence of two popular compensation schemes on subjects’ inclination to lie by adapting an experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a fairly neglected...

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Cooperation across Organizational Boundaries: Experimental Evidence from a Major Sustainability Science Project

Waring, Timothy M.; Goff, Sandra Hughes; McGuire, Julia; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1171-1190

the collaborative abilities and cooperative tendencies of researchers. We use an economic experiment to measure …

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Pivotality and Responsibility Attribution in Sequential Voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2014

Are people blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process? We conduct an experimental voting game and analyze how pivotality affects responsibility attribution by parties who can be negatively affected by the voting outcome. We measure...

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Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Reduce Land Conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - CESifo - 2014

first, low-cost pass at empirical evaluation, we conduct an experiment among farmers in the Ethiopian highlands, a region …

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If I close my eyes, nobody will get hurt. The effect of ignorance on performance in a real effort experiment

Kajackaite, Agne - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2014

' performance in a real effort experiment. We conducted treatments in which subjects' effort either increased only one's own payoff …

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Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab

Cubel, Maria; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms behind this association remain unexplored. In this paper, we take advantage of a controlled laboratory set-up to test whether this relationship operates through productivity, and...

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The Role of Rivalry

Apesteguia, Jose; Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2006) 5, pp. 646-663

Despite a large theoretical and empirical literature on public goods and common-pool resources, a systematic comparison of these two types of social dilemmas is lacking. In fact, there is some confusion about these two types of dilemma situations. As a result, they are often treated alike. In...

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Dynamic Volunteer's Dilemmas over a Finite Horizon

Otsubo, Hironori; Rapoport, Amnon - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 (2008) 6, pp. 961-984

Volunteer's dilemmas that evolve over time are presented and modeled as noncooperative n-person games in extensive form with symmetric players, discrete time, finite horizon, and complete information. Volunteering is costly, thereby giving rise to free riding. Reflecting on the observation that...

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Social Norms in the Aftermath of Ethnic Violence

Whitt, Sam - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 1, pp. 93-119

experiment in postwar Bosnia. In the experiment, subjects are asked to distribute a ten-unit monetary sum between two anonymous …, which is interpreted as evidence of a norm of fairness. Discriminating behavior in the experiment is explained as a product … of ethnic parochialism (rewarding co-ethnics and punishing non-co-ethnics). Overall, the experiment speaks to the …

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