Search Results - subject:"other–regarding preferences"

Social interactions and the influence of "extremists"

Crawford, Ian; Harris, Donna - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 153 (2018), pp. 238-266

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Why did he do that? : using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games

Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 21 (2018) 1, pp. 1-26

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Risk taking on behalf of others : the role of social distance

Montinari, Natalia; Rancan, Michela - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty : JRU 57 (2018) 1, pp. 81-109

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Responsibility effects in decision making under risk

Pahlke, Julius; Strasser, Sebastian; Vieider, Ferdinand M. - 2012

We explore situations in which a decision-maker bears responsibility for somebody else's outcomes as well as for her own. For gains we confirm the intuition that being responsible for somebody else's payoffs increases risk aversion, while in the loss domain we find increased risk seeking. In a...

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Credence goods markets, distributional preferences and the role of institutions

Erharter, Dominik - 2012

We study credence goods markets where an expert not only cares for her own monetary payoff, but also for the monetary payoff of her customer. We show how an expert with heterogeneous distributional preferences responds to monetary incentives in the absence of institutions, under liability and/or...

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How much do others matter? Explaining positional concerns for different goods and personal characteristics

Hillesheim, Inga; Mechtel, Mario - 2012

We test concerns for relative standing with respect to private consumption, income, leisure, savings, and personal characteristics, using data from a classroom survey. Our results show highest degrees of positionality for personal characteristics and income. In order to explain positionality, we...

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Relative consumption concerns or non-monotonic preferences?

Hillesheim, Inga; Mechtel, Mario - 2012

We conduct a classroom survey to investigate the willingness to sacrifice consumption in absolute terms in order to ascend above others in terms of consumption levels. In contrast to other studies using survey methodologies, participants are divided into a treatment and a control group. This...

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Do Liars Believe? Beliefs and Other-Regarding Preferences in Sender-Receiver Games

Sheremeta, Roman M.; Shields, Timothy - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2012

one of the two states. We elicit subjects' beliefs, risk and other-regarding preferences. Our design also allows us to … elicited beliefs and other-regarding preferences. Finally, the honest behavior of some senders can be explained by other-regarding … preferences. Thus we find liars do believe, and individuals who care about the payoffs of others tend to be honest. …

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Individual Evolutionary Learning, Other-regarding Preferences, and the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism

Arifovic, Jasmina; Ledyard, John - Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University - 2012

model with a variation of heterogenous other-regarding preferences and a distribution of types to provide a new theory that …

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The triadic design to identify trust and reciprocity: Extensions and robustness

Giovanni, Di Bartolomeo; Stefano, Papa - Department of Communication, University of Teramo - 2012

Our paper reconsiders the triadic design proposed by Cox (2004) to identify trust and reciprocity in investment games. Specifically, we extend the design in two directions. First, we elicit expectations by a fixed-fee incentive scheme and test the coherence of them with the triadic outcomes. We...

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