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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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Machiavelli advises against delegating the distribution of favors. We test this claim in an experiment, in which an … investor can directly transfer money to a trustee or delegate this decision to another investor. Varying the value of the … initial decision maker if the value of the delegate’s transfer is much higher than the value of the investor’s transfer. …
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’ truth telling is absolute or depends on the size of a lie. In a laboratory experiment we compare punishment for different …
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This paper presents an experiment on the loyalty enhancing effect potentially created by retroactive price reduction …
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This paper presents results from an experiment studying a two-person 4x4 pure coordination game. We seek to identify a …
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In Geng, Weiss, and Woff (2011), we pointed to the possibility that a voting mechanism may create or strengthen an entitlement effect in political-power holders relative to a random-appointment mechanism. This comment documents that such an effect, if it exists, is not robust.
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pivotal decision makers are blamed significantly more than non-pivotal decision makers. Moreover, we find that some voters … avoid being pivotal by voting strategically to delegate the pivotal vote to subsequent decision makers. …
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In the two-person sequential best shot game, first player 1 contributes to a public good and then player 2 is informed about this choice before contributing. The payoff from the public good is the same for both players and depends only on the maximal contribution. Efficient voluntary cooperation...
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laboratory experiment we test whether lying aversion can explain this behavior by comparing honest and fake apologies. First, we …
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Two pairs of two participants each interact repeatedly in two structurally independent but informationally linked Prisoner’s Dilemma games. Neither pair receives feedback about past choices by their own partner but is fully informed about the choices by the other pair. Considering this as a...
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