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Experimenting with strategic experimentation : risk taking, neighborhood size and network structure

Große, Niels D. - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of neighborhood size and network structure on strategic experimentation. We analyze a multi-arm bandit game with one safe and two risky alternatives. In this setting, risk taking produces a learning externality and an opportunity for free riding. We conduct a...

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Committing to incentives : should the decision to sanction be revealed or hidden?

Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - 2010

Sanctions are widely used to promote compliance in principal-agent-relationships. While there is ample evidence confirming the predicted positive incentive effect of sanctions, it has also been shown that imposing sanctions may in fact reduce compliance by crowding-out intrinsic motivation. We...

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Rules (of bidding) to generate equal stated profits : an axiomatic approach

Güth, Werner - 2010

Although one may hope to achieve equality of stated profits without enforcing it, one may not trust in such voluntary equality seeking and rather try to impose rules (of bidding) guaranteeing it. Our axiomatic approach is based on envy-free net trades according to bids which, together with the...

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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society : the case of german convergence in self-employment

Schindele, Yvonne - 2010

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there has been an ambitious political goal of fostering entrepreneurial activity in that part of the country. One of the most-hoped for results of this undertaking is the anticipated...

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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin; Angelova, Vera - 2010

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2010 – 016 Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed ….kocher@lrz.uni-muenchen.de. + Max-Planck Institute of Economics, Kahlaische Straße 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany. Jena Economic Research Papers 2010 - 016 … in gift-exchange across different experimental treatments and agent types. 1 Jena Economic Research Papers 2010 - 016 …

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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness : gender-task stereotypes

Große, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - 2010

Gender-specific patterns of self-selection into competitive and cooperative environments may have multiple reasons. One of the most prominent explanations to this point is, that there are inherent differences between men and women when it comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a...

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Can nature promote development? : The role of sustainable tourism for economic growth

Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph - 2010

We analyze whether biodiversity is enhancing the development process in developing countries (DCs) via increasing tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if used sustainably - provides a comparative advantage in...

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Institutions, culture, and open source

Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Freytag, Andreas - 2010

The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...

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A voluntary contribution experiment with one-way communication and income heterogeneity

Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria; Weisser, … - 2010

One-way communication has been found to substantially increase contributions in linear voluntary contribution mechanisms. We confirm the robustness of this result in the presence of income heterogeneity. -- Public goods experiment ; Cheap talk ; Heterogeneous endowments

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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth a multiple country test of an oath script

Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan J.; … - 2010

Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they actually behave. In our study of climate change and emissions reductions, we took advantage of the...

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