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Experimental analysis of successes and failures in prosocial and ethical behavior

Kandul, Serhiy - 2015

Pro-social and ethical behavior primarily understood as the ability to sacrifice ones own interest to the benefit of others leads to welfare improvements and social progress, whereas anti-social and unethical actions result in irrevocable welfare losses and destruction. This dissertation...

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Heterogeneous risks at auditing of trade accounts receivable and their default in payment within personal insolvency

Prömpers, Henning Rainer - 2017

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Booms, Busts, and Fraud

Povel, Paul; Singh, Rajdeep; Winton, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003

We examine firm managers' incentives to commit fraud in a model where firms seek funding from investors and investors … can monitor firms at a cost in order to get more precise information about firm prospects. We show that fraud incentives … funded without committing fraud, whereas in bad times investors are more vigilant and it is harder to commit fraud …

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Optimal Audit Policy and Heterogenous Agents

Ratto, Marisa; Vergé, Thibaud - EconWPA - 2003

Frauds can be explained not only in terms of individual willingness to cheat, but may also be driven by opportunities to behave dishonestly. The audit policy should therefore be different for different categories of agents. This paper focuses on the optimal audit policy when there are two...

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Decision making in innovation and entrepreneurship : a collection of conjoint-based studies

Perry, Anja - 2010

Diese Arbeit mit dem Titel Decision Making in Innovation and Entrepreneurship A Collection of Conjoint-based Studies beschäftigt sich mit unterschiedlichen Themenbereichen der Kognition, Entscheidungsfindung und des Engagements im innovativen und unternehmerischen Umfeld. Die Conjoint-Analyse...

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Why Lying Pays: Truth Bias in the Communication with Conflicting Interests

Kawagoe, Toshiji; Takizawa, Hirokazu - EconWPA - 2005

We conduct experiments of a cheap-talk game with incomplete information in which one sender type has an incentive to misrepresent her type. Although that Sender type mostly lies in the experiments, the Receiver tends to believe the Sender's messages. This confirms ``truth bias'' reported in...

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Hide and Seek in Arizona

Rosenthal, Robert W.; Shachat, Jason; Walker, Mark - EconWPA - 2003

Laboratory subjects repeatedly played one of two variations of a simple two-person zero-sum game of ``hide and seek.'' Three puzzling departures from the prescriptions of equilibrium theory are found in the data: an asymmetry related to the player's role in the game; an asymmetry across the game...

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Simulating a Multiproduct Barter Exchange Economy

Levy, Daniel; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2005

We describe a multiproduct barter trading experiment in which students exchange real goods in an open market based on … their own personal preference. The experiment is designed for simulating a pure exchange market in order to demonstrate the …

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A Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

This paper aims to study, by means of a laboratory experiment and a simulation model, some of the mechanisms which …

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CONSUMER SEARCH: NOT ENOUGH OR TOO MUCH?

Zwick, Rami; Rapoport, Amnon; Lo, Alison King Chung; … - EconWPA - 2001

We study search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" environment in which consumers search sequentially for the best alternative from a known and finite set of multi-attribute alternatives. In contrast to most previous studies, we make no distributional assumptions about the quality of...

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