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-world dimension of free riding. In a cash-in-advance economy, free riding becomes a two-stage problem, while existing experiments only … the public good and leisure is valuable. Existing experiments start with a given number of "tokens" for each decision … making ; choice behavior ; public goods ; experimental economics ; altruism ; fairness ; conditional reciprocity …
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. -- contests ; intention-based fairness preferences …
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systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and … insights into the nature of preferences and into the relative performance of competing theories of fairness. The purpose of …
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Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the Power-to-Take Game. In this 2-person game, player 1 can...
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intrinsically linked to distributive fairness. We find that compliance remains largely unaffected by complexity when income taxes …
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Recent evidence highlights the importance of social norms in many economic relations. However, many of these relationships are long-term and provide repeated game incentives for performance. We experimentally investigate interaction effects of reciprocity and repeated game incentives in two...
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. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in …
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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda … the Swiss population. We document that inequality aversion and altruistic concerns play a quantitatively large positive … inequality averse individuals display strong support for policies that primarily aim at reducing the incomes of the rich …
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In many business transactions, in labor-management relations, in international conflicts, and welfare state reforms claims acquired in the past seem to create strong entitlements that shape current negotiations. Despite their importance, the role of entitlements in negotiations has not received...
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Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...
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