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Motivational crowding out effects in charitable giving: Experimental evidence

Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - 2018

This paper tests motivational crowding out in the domain of charitable giving. A novelty is that our experiment isolates alternative explanations for the decline of giving such as strategic considerations of decision makers. Moreover, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of...

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"Read my Lips!" Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Electoral Competition on Shirking and Trust

Walkowitz, Gari; Weiss, Arne R. - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2014

We experimentally test whether electoral competition reduces shirking behavior by office-holders and increases citizens' trust. We hypothesize that competition increases campaign promises by office-holders, who feel committed to what they promise. Using a novel repeated multi-person...

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Authority and Centrality: Power and Cooperation in Social Dilemma Networks

Ramalingam, Abhijit; Rojo Arjona, David; Schram, Arthur; … - Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), … - 2015

We investigate the effects of power on cooperation in repeated social dilemma settings. Groups of five players play either multi-player trust games or VCM-games on a fixed network. Power stems from having the authority to allocate funds raised through voluntary contributions by all members...

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Promises in contract design

Charness, Gary; Du, Ninghua; Yang, Chun-Lei; Yao, Lan - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 194-208

In this paper, we propose a new channel of contract design to boost efficiency. If deviating from one's own words induces a self-imposed moral burden, the optimal contracting procedure with regard to cheap talk shall assign the responsibility for installing the nonbinding promise in the contract...

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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas

Xiao, Erte; Kunreuther, Howard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this … paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … specified probabilistically under a transparent information condition. In particular, we study two types of punishment …

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Fairness and Persuasion. How Stakeholder Communication Affects Impartial Decision Making

Kleine, Marco; Langenbach, Pascal; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2014

We study experimentally whether and to what extent impartial decision makers are influenced by stakeholders’ fairness opinions in an allocation decision. The setting allows for different focal fairness rules to be considered. We compare communication treatments, in which one of the...

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The Nature of Excess: Using Randomized Treatments to Investigate Price Dynamics

list, john; Price, Michael K.; Al-Ubaydli, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This study explores empirically the price dynamics within two distinct market institutions - a double oral auction, which resembles modern asset markets, and a bilateral exchange market, which represents markets that have existed for centuries. To provide a theoretical basis to our...

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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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Money Talks? An Experimental Study of Rebate in Reputation System Design

Li, Lingfang; Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Reputation systems that rely on feedback from traders are important institutions for helping sustain trust in markets, while feedback information is usually considered a public good. We apply both theoretical models and experiments to study how raters' feedback behavior responds to different...

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Behavioral Law and Economics: Empirical Methods

Engel, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013

Originally, behavioral law and economics was an exercise in exploring the implications of key findings from behavioral economics (and psychology) for the analysis and reform of legal institutions. Yet as the new discipline matures, it increasingly replaces foreign evidence by fresh evidence,...

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