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A Successful Competency-Based Writing Skills Development Programme: Results of an Experiment

Craig, Russell; McKinney, C. Nicholas - In: Accounting Education 19 (2010) 3, pp. 257-278

assessed by means of a quasi-experiment involving a pre-test, post-test design with a treatment group and a control group …

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Unequal Opportunities and Distributive Justice

Fischbacher, Urs; Eisenkopf, Gerald; Föllmi-Heusi, … - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2010

for redistribution. In this experiment, we can control the information about the role of luck and effort. We find that …

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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

Masclat, David; Noussair, Charles; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2010

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare ? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …

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Disruptions in large value payment systems: An experimental approach

Abbink, Klaus; Bosman, Ronald; Heijmans, Ronald; … - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2010

market versus a homogeneous market). The game used in this experiment is a stylized version of a model of Bech and Garrett …

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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …

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Toward an evaluation of evaluation methods: a commentary on the experimental approach in the fields of employment, work, and professional training

Bourguignon, Francois - In: Journal of Development Effectiveness 2 (2010) 3, pp. 310-319

This paper compares two families of evaluation techniques for social programmes in the field of employment and income. The first refers to the experimental methods and in particular to the randomised control trials, which are of increasing use in the evaluation of social programmes. The second...

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Lying and Friendship

Chakravarty, Sugato; Ma, Yongjin; Maximiano, Sandra - Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing, Purdue … - 2011

The goal of this paper is to investigate the interaction between social ties and deceptive behavior within an experimental setting. To do so, we implement a modified sender-receiver game in which a sender obtains a private signal regarding the value of a state variable and sends a message...

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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation

Joffily, Mateus; Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available. The application of sanctions activates a...

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Institutions and Contract Enforcement

Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Macleod, W. Bentley - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions â€“ dismissal barriers, and bonus pay â€“ affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker...

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Evidence of homo economicus? Findings from experiment on evolutionary prisoners' dilemma game

Pradiptyo, Rimawan; Sasmitasiwi, Banoon; Sahadewo, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper aims to analyze subjects’ behavior in an experiment on evolutionary process of prisoners’ dilemma game. The … experiment has been designed by using sixteen one-shot prisoners’ dilemma games with payoffs perturbation and random matching … players under perfect information. The subjects of the experiment were students and staff in Universitas Gadjah Mada …

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