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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation and Trust

Columbus, Simon; Kasper, Matthias; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2023

This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...

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The Team Allocator Game : Allocation Power in Public Goods Games

Karakostas, Alexandros; Matzat, Dominik; Riewe, Gerhard; … - 2021

We analyze linear, weakest-link and best-shot public goods games in which a distinguished team member, the team allocator, has property rights over the benefits from the public good and can distribute them among team members. These team allocator games are intended to capture natural asymmetries...

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Cross-Game Learning and Cognitive Ability in Auctions

Giebe, Thomas; Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; … - 2021

study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills … losses from high bids are more salient than in SPAs. Experience in FPAs causes substantial cross-game learning for … bid shading by cognitively more able participants, resulting in lower profits in FPAs. Thus, cross-game learning has the …

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Reciprocity and emotions when reciprocators know each other

Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans - 2006

This is an experimental study of a three-player power-to-take game where a take authority is matched with two responders. The game consists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides how much of the endowment of each responder that is left after the second stage will be...

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Imitation and the evolution of Walrasian behavior: theoretically fragile but behaviorally robust

Apesteguia, José; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Jörg; … - 2008

A well-known result by Vega-Redondo (1997) implies that in symmetric Cournot oligopoly, imitation leads to the Walrasian outcome where price equals marginal cost. In this paper, we show that this result is not robust to the slightest asymmetry in fixed costs. Instead of obtaining the Walrasian...

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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study

Reshidi, Pellumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2021

Many committees—juries, political task forces, etc.—spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...

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On Self-Serving Strategic Beliefs

Ging-Jehli, Nadja R. - 2019

We experimentally study settings where an individual may have an incentive to adopt negative beliefs about another’s intentions in order to justify egoistic behavior. Our first study uses a game in which a player can take money from an opponent in order to prevent the opponent from...

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Are Women Less Effective Leaders than Men? Evidence from Experiments Using Coordination Games

Heursen, Lea; Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021

We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...

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Ultimatum Game Behavior in a Social-Preferences Vacuum Chamber

Benndorf, Volker; Grosse Brinkhaus, Thomas; Siemens, … - 2021

findings are strategic uncertainty and incomplete learning …

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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010

This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...

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