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Compensating the cooperators: Is sorting in the prisoner's dilemma possible?

Bohnet, Iris; Kübler, Dorothea - Sonderforschungsbereich 373, Quantifikation und … - 2000

Choice between different versions of a game may provide a means of sorting, allowing players with different preferences to self-select into groups of similar types. We experimentally investigate whether auctioning off the right to play a prisoner's dilemma game in which the cost of unilateral...

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Estimating the benefits of traffic calming on through routes: A choice expermiment approach

Garrod, Guy D.; Scarpa, Riccardo; Willis, Ken G. - 2000

paper reports the results of a series of choice experiments that were used to investigate the willingness to pay (WTP) of a … choice experiments. These revealed that local people had a positive WTP for a reduction in the negative impacts of road …

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Bidding Behavior and Decision Costs in Field Experiments

List, John A.; Lucking-Reiley, David - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2000

Whether rationality of economic behavior increases with expected payoffs and decreases with the cognitive cost it takes to formulate an optimal strategy remains an open question. We explore these issues with field data, using individual bids from sealed-bid auctions in which we sold nearly...

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The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign

List, John A.; Lucking-Reiley, David - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2000

We test two recent theories on the subject of charitable fundraising in capital campaigns. Andreoni (1998) predicts that publicly announced seed contributions can increase the total amount of charitable giving in a capital campaign. Bagnoli and Lipman (1989) predict that another technique for...

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Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity – Evidence and Economic Applications

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2000

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...

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Repeated Game Strategies in Local and Group Prisoner`s Dilemma

Kirchkamp, Oliver; Nagel, Rosemarie - Sonderforschungsbereich 504 "Rationalitätskonzepte, …; … - 2000

prisoners' dilemmas experiments. We start with a model where players choose a fixed action that remains constant for all …

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Choice of partners in multiple two-person prisoner's dilemma games: An experimental study

Hauk, Esther; Nagel, Rosemarie - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

. We compare our results of multiple games with single game PD-experiments and find no difference in aggregate behavior …

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Local and Group Interaction in Prisoners` Dilemmas

Kirchkamp, Oliver; Nagel, Rosemarie - Sonderforschungsbereich 504 "Rationalitätskonzepte, …; … - 2000

We experimentally study the effects of locality in a repeated prisoners' dilemma. We compare players located on a circle with those in neighbourless groups. On circles players interact only with neighbours, but not with distant players. In groups all players interact with each other in the same...

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What’s in a Name? - An ethnical discrimination experiment

Holm, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2000

This paper presents the results from an ethnical discrimination experiment that was conducted in one of Sweden’s most “problematic” cities with respect to the integration process of refugees. The subjects confronted three different bargaining games; one trust game, one social exclusion and...

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Stereotypes, Sex Discrimination and Paranoia - an experimental study

Holm, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2000

We analyze results from two categories of experiments where the subjects received controlled signals about the sex of … their co-players. In a series of Battle of the Sexes experiments the subjects played more hawkish against women than against … men. The impact of the sex signal was most pronounced among female subjects. In the second category of experiments we …

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