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Charness, Gary; Shmidov, Valentin - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Microeconomics 10 (2014) 3, pp. 167-207

of theory and experiments that have identified trust and reciprocity in economics and human behavior. …This survey explores the contributions of behavioral economics, laboratory experiments, and field experiments to our … trust and reciprocity, departing from pure self-interest in the understanding of "homo economicus", begins the discussion …

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Deception: The role of guilt

Battigalli, Pierpaolo; Charness, Gary; Dufwenberg, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 227-232

Evidence suggests that whether or not people dislike lying is situation-dependent. We argue that the theory of simple guilt can accommodate this well.

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Give and take in dictator games

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Nielsen, Ulrik H.; Sørensen, … - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 280-283

It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the choice set providing a signal about entitlements in a setting where...

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Pay Inequality, Pay Secrecy, and Effort: Theory and Evidence

Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

-maximizing firms to compress wages under quite general conditions. Our laboratory experiments, on the other hand, show that --while …

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Single vs. multiple disclosures in an experimental asset market with information acquisition

Ruiz-Buforn, Alba; Alfarano, Simone; Camacho-Cuena, Eva; … - In: The European journal of finance 28 (2022) 13/15, pp. 1513-1539

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Promises in contract design

Charness, Gary; Du, Ninghua; Yang, Chun-Lei; Yao, Lan - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 194-208

his real choice of effort in a gift exchange game, we implement four treatments in our experiments by varying two factors …

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Identities, selection, and contributions in a public-goods game

Charness, Gary; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Jiménez, Natalia - In: Games and Economic Behavior 87 (2014) C, pp. 322-338

experiments, and recent research has shown the importance of identity in a wide array of economic environments. But predictions …

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Experimental methods: Eliciting risk preferences

Charness, Gary; Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 87 (2013) C, pp. 43-51

Economists and psychologists have developed a variety of experimental methodologies to elicit and assess individual risk attitudes. Choosing which to utilize, however, is largely dependent on the question one wants to answer, as well as the characteristics of the sample population. The goal of...

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Competition and the Ratchet Effect

Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

In labor markets, the ratchet effect refers to a situation where workers subject to performance pay choose to restrict their output, because they rationally anticipate that firms will respond to higher output levels by raising output requirements or cutting pay. We model this effect as a...

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The strategy versus the direct-response method: a first survey of experimental comparisons

Brandts, Jordi; Charness, Gary - In: Experimental Economics 14 (2011) 3, pp. 375-398

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