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Inefficiency and social exclusion in a coalition formation game : experimental evidence

Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - 1999 - This version: February, 1999

This paper reports the results of experiments involving a 3-personcoalitionformation game with an ultimatumbargaining …-person ultimatumbargainingexperiments, negative reciprocity (i.e.punishment of unfair offers) plays a crucial role in … decision making.Thehypothesis that selfishness and anticipatednegative reciprocity by proposers together with actual …

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The impact of the menstrual cycle on bargaining behavior

Lozano, Lina; Riedl, Arno; Rott, Christina - 2024

We investigate experimentally how the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and bargaining outcomes of women. Female participants negotiate in an unstructured bilateral bargaining game with asymmetric information about the allocation of a surplus ('pie size'). We find that the menstrual...

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An experimental investigation of wage taxation and unemployment in closed and open economies

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

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...

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Tax liability side equivalence in gift-exchange labor markets

Riedl, Arno; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2003

Tax Liability Side Equivalence (tax LSE) claims that the statutory incidence of a tax is irrelevant for its economic incidence. In gift-exchange labor markets, firms provide a gift to workers by paying high wages, and workers reciprocate by providing high efforts. Tax LSE is theoretically...

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When culture does not matter : experimental evidence from coalition formation ultimatum games in Austria and Japan

Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - 1999 - This version: March, 1999

This paper reports the results of a cross-country comparison between Austria andJapan for an experimental 3-personcoalition formation ultimatum game. The experimental design allows thecomparison with respect to three decisions. (i)The coalition decision, (ii) proposers' demand behavior in 2- and...

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Input versus output taxation in an experimental international economy

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2003

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...

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Emotions and economic shocks in a first-price auction

Bosman, Ronald; Riedl, Arno - 2003

We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions andbidding behavior in a second...

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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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