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The Behavioral Impact of Emotions in a Power to take Game: An Experimental Study

Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides howmuch income … punishment behavior. (3) Thereare discontinuous “jumps” in the behavior of responders. They either chooseno punishment (destroy … nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroyeverything). (4) Expectations have a significant effect on the …

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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this …

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The Design of (De)centralized Punishment Institutions for Sustaining Co-operation

Kosfeld, Michael; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

difference between them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group … members themselves individually, i.e., punishment is decentral in nature. The second approach is based on the idea that … individuals may be willing to delegate the punishment to a central, external authority. The key questions to answered are, whether …

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Does Stake Size matter for Cooperation and Punishment?

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that … an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor, interestingly, the level of punishment. …

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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

anger, ‘social’ emotions like shame and guilt need to be present for punishment to be an effective deterrent of …

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Does the Wage Tax System cause Budget Deficits?

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A.A.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/n3w45lxj307m883m/">'Public Choice'</A> 109(3-4) 371-94.<P>In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance...</p></a>

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Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervision

Dittrich, Dennis; Kocher, Martin G. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …

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Peers at Work: From the Field to the Lab

Veldhuizen, Roel van; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

riding. In this paper we report an attempt to reproduce the findings of Mas and Moretti in a lab experiment. Lab experiments … colleagues whom they observe. Although the subjects in our experiment are aware of the productivity of others and although there …

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Social Comparison and Risky Choices

Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

risky choices is explored in an experiment in which participants make a series of choices between lotteries with only …

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Errors in Judicial Decisions

Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective …

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