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

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. …

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

decision to lead. …

We study the implications of reciprocity on agenda setting in a sequential policy decision. We designed a laboratory … experiment in which a committee decides sequentially on three independent bills. Selfish committee members would turn down all … setters use their power when setting the agenda but are rather generous in the voting decision. Legislators benefiting from …

are relevant in the decision to lead. …

most frequently observed and discussed biases of financial investors. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether the …

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. …

laboratory experiment in which apologies emerge endogenously, we find that harmdoers use apologies in particular if they fear …