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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis : Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages

Kocher, Martin - 2012

, it is not the consequence of a stronger level of reciprocity by agents, but of the retrenchment of sanctioning options on …

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Sabotage in Tournaments : Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Harbring, Christine - 2009

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm one of the key insights from theory: effort and...

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Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options

Hennig‐Schmidt, Heike - 2013

We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …

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'Buy-it-Now' or 'Sell-it-Now' Auctions : Effects of Changing Bargaining Power in Sequential Trading Mechanisms

Grebe, Tim - 2015

We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade … at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … effects of bargaining power on aggregate outcomes. There is, however, substantial heterogeneity within sellers. Sellers who …

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Anger Management : Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Gee, Laura K. - 2017

emotions could decrease the use of punishments while keeping welfare high, possibly depending on pre-existing levels of … net earnings and self-reported emotions compared to a control condition (Natural). Although the interaction between the …

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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods

DeAngelo, Gregory - 2018

Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of sanctions imposed, but this research almost always...

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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic Versus Antisocial Punishment : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups

Götte, Lorenz - 2010

We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...

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Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents : Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games

Czermak, Simon - 2010

We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...

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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan - 2011

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...

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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Conrads, Julian - 2011

In his classic article "An Essay on Bargaining" Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength … rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …

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