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Shifting Punishment on Minorities : Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating

Bauer, Michal; Cahlikova, Jana; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2021

This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one’s own group...

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Conflict in the Pool : A Field Experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Faravelli, Marco; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2021

We conduct a field experiment on conflict in swimming pools. When all lanes are occupied, an actor joins the least crowded lane and asks one of the swimmers to move to another lane. The lane represents a contested scarce resource. We vary the actor’s valuation (high and low) for the good...

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On the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims : An Experimental Study

Herrero, Carmen - 2011

This paper reports an experimental study on three well-known solutions for problems of adjudicating conflicting claims: the constrained equal-awards, the proportional, and the constrained equal-losses rules. We first let subjects play three games designed such that the unique equilibrium...

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The impact of distance on parochial altruism : An experimental investigation

Boulu-Reshef, Béatrice - 2020

of variation in social distance within the in-group together with variation in social distance between the in- and out … distance has a systematic effect on individual choice. In particular, parochial altruism is stimulated when individuals …' distance to both their in- and out-group is high. A long-standing hypothesis about behavior in contexts of inter-group conflict …

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Strategic Alliances in a Veto Game : An Experimental Study

Kim, Chulyoung; Kim, Sang-Hyun; Lee, Jinhyuk; Lee, Joosung - 2021

In a veto game, we investigate the effects of "buyout" which allows non-veto players strategically form an intermediate coalition. We report two main experimental findings in this paper. First, the frequency of intermediate coalition formation is much lower than predicted by theory, regardless...

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How success breeds success

Descamps, Ambroise; Ke, Changxia; Page, Lionel - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 1, pp. 355-385

We investigate if, and why, an initial success can trigger a string of successes. Using random variations in success in a real‐effort laboratory experiment, we cleanly identify the causal effect of an early success in a competition. We confirm that an early success indeed leads to increased...

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Motivated political reasoning: the formation of belief-value constellations

Barron, Kai; Becker, Anna; Huck, Steffen - 2021

We study the causal relationship between moral values ("ought" statements) and factual beliefs ("is" statements) and show that, contrary to predictions of orthodox Bayesian models, values exert an influence on beliefs. This effect is mediated by prior political leanings and, thus, contributes to...

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Endogenous price leadership : a theoretical and experimental analysis

Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; Zaby, … - 2013

We present a model of price leadership on homogeneous product markets where the price leader is selected endogenously. The price leader sets and guarantees a sales price to which followers can adjust according to their individual supply functions. The price leader then clears the market by...

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The minimum approval mechanism implements the efficient public good allocation theoretically and experimentally

Masuda, Takehito; Okano, Yoshitaka; Saijō, Tatsuyoshi - 2013

We propose the minimum approval mechanism (MAM) for a standard linear public good environment with two players. Players simultaneously and privately choose their contributions to the public good in the first stage. In the second stage, they simultaneously decide whether to approve the other's...

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious alliances accept a peaceful division of the spoils, and when they fight against each other, and how the inability to commit to a peaceful division affects their effort contributions in...

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