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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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interaction, in contrast with a trait like altruism. Moreover, a tie is not related to strategic behavior such as reputation …
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There is strong evidence that people exploit their bargaining power in competitive markets but not in bilateral bargaining situations. There is also strong evidence that people exploit free-riding opportunities in voluntary cooperation games. Yet, when they are given the opportunity to punish...
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This Paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …
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In this Paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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rather than positive altruism. In a large class of two-stage games that includes principal-agent and gift-giving games, this … player has higher material payoffs, so that reciprocity does not increase equity: For sufficiently strong reciprocity …
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I develop a model of (individually rational) collective reality denial in groups, organizations and markets. Whether participants' tendencies toward wishful thinking reinforce or dampen each other is shown to hinge on a simple and novel mechanism. When an agent can expect to benefit from other's...
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This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for … charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters … this Paper is twofold: first, it shows that reciprocity is an important motive for charitable giving, in addition to the …
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We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts …
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