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State coercion and control aversion : an internet study in East and West Germany
Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2019 - This version: September 2019
Do politico-economic systems influence how control affects motivation? We hypothesize that control aversion, meaning crowding-out of intrinsic motivation due to enforcement, has evolved less under the coercive regime of East Germany than under the liberal regime of West Germany. We test this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312305
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Behavior under vague standards : evidence from the laboratory
Hoeppner, Sven; Lyhs, Laura Penelope - 2016
Doctrinal lawyers strive to reduce legal uncertainty based on the premise that difficult to predict legal consequences … discourage socially desirable activities. Contributions from the economic theory of law suggest that increasing legal uncertainty … can be socially beneficial. We test in an innovative laboratory experiment whether increasing the variability of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580756
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010446
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the opportunity to influence the rules of the game before they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010646
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946494
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What are the best quorum rules? : A laboratory investigation
Aguiar-Conraria, Luís; Magalhães, Pedro C.; Vanberg, … - 2019
laboratory experiment to investigate the performance of different quora in reaching such goals. We introduce two main innovations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112132
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926027
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927871
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Property is dummy proof : an experiment
Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2020
limitations irrelevant. This experiment shows that strong property rights serve this function. In theory, efficient outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153390
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Democracy and compliance in public goods games
Gallier, Carlo - 2017
I investigate if, how, and why the effect of a contribution rule in a public goods game depends on how it is implemented: endogenously chosen or externally imposed. The rule prescribes full contributions to the public good backed by a nondeterrent sanction for those who do not comply. My...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735311