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We study how the willingness to enter long-term bilateral relationships affects cooperation even when parties have … little information about each other, ex ante, and cooperation is otherwise unenforceable. We experimentally investigate a … research, longer interactions facilitate cooperation. However, many individuals avoid long-term commitment, with uncooperative …
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benefits in the case of cooperation, using field data from a modified one-shot prisoner's dilemma played in a high …
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Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed...
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' fairness concerns, making them more likely to accept low offers. Consistent with our theory, we also find that past experience …
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the two main components of prospect theory, the value function and the probability weighting function, are complements in … probabilities. Behavior as described by prospect theory might therefore be evolution's second-best solution to the fitness …
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This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...
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It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellectual tasks. We report that in a company takeover experiment, groups placed better bids than individuals and substantially reduced the winner’s curse. This improvement was mostly due to peer pressure over the...
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We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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This paper studies socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs mitigates the externality. Our first study, conducted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891910
Traditionally, the virtue of democratic elections has been seen in their role as means of screening and sanctioning shirking public officials. This paper proposes a novel rationale for elections and political campaigns considering that candidates incur psychological costs of lying, in particular...
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