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Religion and trust: an experimental study

Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Vogel, Claudia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behaviour in a trust game (Berg et al., Games and Economic Behaviour, 1995), which...

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Field and Online Experiments on Procrastination and Willpower

Burger, Nicholas; Charness, Gary; Lynham, John - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2010

Self-control problems have recently received considerable attention from economic theorists. We conducted two studies to test the benefits of externally imposed deadlines and how willpower depletion affects behavior, providing some of the first data in these areas. Each study involved a...

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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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Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting - Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …

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Reference Points and Effort Provision

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …

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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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Unequal Opportunities and Distributive Justice

Eisenkopf, Gerald; Fischbacher, Urs; Föllmi-Heusi, … - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2011

redistribution. People earn money in a real effort experiment and can then decide how to distribute it among themselves and another …

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Doing Well by doing good - or doing better by delegating?

Eisenkopf, Gerald; Fischbacher, Urs - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2011

Machiavelli advises against delegating the distribution of favors. We test this claim in an experiment, in which an …

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