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Revealed Distributional Preferences: Individuals vs. Teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We study a fundamental conflict in economic decision-making, the trade-off between equality, equity and incentives, in a new experimental game that nests a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. In a 2×2 design, we let subjects either vote on or...

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Individual or team decision-making-Causes and consequences of self-selection

Kocher, Martin G.; Strauß, Sabine; Sutter, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Even though decision-making in small teams is pervasive in business and private life, little is known about subjects' preferences with respect to individual and team decision-making and about the consequences of respecting these preferences. We report the results from an experimental...

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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents

Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G.; Popova, Vera - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...

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Time is money - Time pressure, incentives, and the quality of decision-making

Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Many decisions in economics and finance have to be made under severe time pressure. Furthermore, payoffs frequently depend on the speed of decision-making, as, for instance, when buying and selling stocks. In this paper, we examine the influence of time pressure and time-dependent incentive...

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Gender pairing and bargaining-Beware the same sex!

Sutter, Matthias; Bosman, R.; Kocher, Martin G.; van … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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Tax compliance under tax regime changes

Heinemann, Friedrich; Kocher, Martin G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the...

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Individual versus group behavior and the role of the decision making procedure in gift-exchange experiments

Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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Trust and trustworthiness across different age groups

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We examine the degree of trust and trustworthiness in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six … different age groups, ranging from 8-year-olds to retired persons. Although both trust and trustworthiness have been identified … trust increases almost linearly from early childhood to early adulthood, but stays rather constant within different adult …

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Social background, cooperative behavior, and norm enforcement

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

trust or household violence. …

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