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Let the market decide : an experimental study of competition and fairness
Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2014
Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can … inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360299
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Big experimenter is watching you! : anonymity and prosocial behavior in the laboratory
Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2011
important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this literature relies to a large extent on experiments that do …-subject anonymity may create selfish incentives to engage in seemingly other-regarding behavior. If this were the case these experiments ….-- scrutiny ; anonymity ; laboratory experiments ; prosocial behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739140
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A portfolio of dilemmas : experimental evidence on choice bracketing in a mini-trust game
Ding, Jieyao - 2012
Bracketing is a mental procedure about how people deal with multiple tasks. If a decision maker handles all the tasks at the same time, it is called broad bracketing. If she handles the tasks separately, e.g., one or a few tasks each time, it is called narrow bracketing. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518332
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Estimation of the house money effect using hurdle models
Engel, Christoph; Moffat, Peter G. - 2012
Evidence from an experiment investigating the "house money effect" in the context of a public goods game is reconsidered. Analysis is performed within the framework of the panel hurdle model, in which subjects are assumed to be one of two types: free-riders, and potential contributors. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569530
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The missing type : where are the inequality averse (students)?
Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2023
differs from the students' distribution. In the general population, three types emerge: an inequality averse, an altruistic … of an inequality averse type in the student population is particularly striking considering the fact that this type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250969
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Generosity across contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015 - Revised version, March 2015
non-monetary. In two experiments, generosity is significantly higher in non-monetary contexts. Thus, the typical monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500828
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Game form misconceptions are not necessary for a willingness-to-pay vs. willingness-to-accept gap
Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2015 - Revised version, April 2015
Cason and Plott (2014) show that subjects' misconception about the incentive properties of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) value elicitation procedure can generate data patterns that look like - and might thus be misinterpreted as evidence for - preferences constructed from endowments or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430731
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Teaching in the lab : financial incentives in the education process
Helbach, Christoph; Keldenich, Klemens - 2012
This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance-based monetary incentives in the teaching process. The process of knowledge transmission is recreated using a video-stream. Four different teacher payment schemes are compared, three of which depend on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579240
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
In major legal orders such as UK, the U.S., Germany, and France, bribers and recipients face equally severe criminal sanctions. In contrast, countries like China, Russia, and Japan treat the briber more mildly. Given these differences between symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487845
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Harm on an innocent outsider as a lubricant of cooperation : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012
If two players of a simultaneous symmetric one-shot prisoner's dilemma hold standard prefer-ences, the fact that choosing the cooperative move imposes harm on a passive outsider is imma-terial. Yet if participants hold social preferences, one might think that they are reticent to impose harm on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490177