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Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999

Our study concerns bargaining behavior in situations where one party is in a stronger position than the other. We investigate both the tradeoff the favored party makes between pursuing his strategic advantage and giving weight to other players' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the...

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When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non- cooperation

Houser, Daniel; Xiao, Erte; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2005

People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in...

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Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

Fehr, Ernst; Gaechter, Simon - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

This paper provides evidence that free riders are heavily punished even if punishment is costly and does not provide any material benefits for the punisher. The more free riders negatively deviate from the group standard the more they are punished. As a consequence, the existence of an...

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The Role of Equality, Efficiency, and Rawlsian Motives in Social Preferences: A Reply to Engelmann and Strobel

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

In a recent paper Engelmann and Strobl claim that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is far more important than inequity aversion. Here we show that the relevance of the efficiency motive is largely restricted to students of...

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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2005

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are "types" of...

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Trust and Reciprocity in Incentive Contracting

Rigdon, Mary - EconWPA - 2005

Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...

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Sustaining Cooperation in trust Games

McCabe, Kevin; Rigdon, Mary; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2004

-person trust game. Players are typed based on their recent track record as whether or not they are trusting (Players 1) and whether …

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Generosity across contexts

Weber, Roberto A.; Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...

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A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

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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Trust among Strangers

Ho, Teck-Hua; Weigelt, Keith - EconWPA - 2005

The trust building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multi …-stage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. And in each stage, players have an … trusting behavior. So, we study the trust building process where there is little scope for social relations and networks …

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