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We investigate social norms for dictator game giving using a recently proposed norm-elicitation procedure (Krupka and Weber, 2013). We elicit norms separately from dictator, recipient, and disinterested third party respondents and find that elicited norms are stable and insensitive to the role...
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interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us … behavior in a coordination game with multiple equilibria and a public goods game, which has only one equilibrium in material … ; identification ; experiments ; coordination ; cooperation …
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A popular empirical technique to measure norms uses coordination games to elicit what subjects in an experiment … that subjects use their normative expectations to solve the coordination game. However, subjects might use alternative …
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This note uncovers new properties of the von Neumann-Morgenstern solution in weak tournaments and majoritarian games. We propose a new procedure for the construction of choice sets from weak tournaments, based on dynamic stability criteria. The idea is to analyze dynamic versions of the...
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We use a novel experiment to investigate whether people aim to coordinate when, to do so, they have to lie; and are … coordination would be beneficial and who is facing the same individual and mutual incentives and the same moral dilemma. We find …
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In a coordination game such as the Battle of the Sexes, agents can condition their plays on external signals that can … are rare. Thus, even in a world of simple learning agents, coordination behavior can take on some surprising forms. …
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It is commonly assumed that friendship should decrease strategic uncertainty in games involving tacit coordination …. However, this has never been tested on two "opposite poles" of coordination, namely, games of strategic complements and …
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. However, this has never been tested on two "opposite poles" of coordination, namely, games of strategic complements and …. Friendship thus appears to have a very different impact on coordination games involving strategic complements and substitutes. We …
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Friendship is commonly assumed to reduce strategic uncertainty and enhance tacit coordination. However, this assumption … has never been tested across two opposite poles of coordination involving either strategic complementarity or … substitutability. We had participants interact with friends or strangers in two classic coordination games: the stag hunt game, which …
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We experimentally investigate the relationship between discriminatory behaviour and the perceived social inappropriateness of discrimination. We test the framework of Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2005), which suggests discrimination will be stronger when social norms favour it. Our results support...
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