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The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...
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Changes in political leadership drive sharp changes in public policy and partisan beliefs about the future. We exploit the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in political power on one of the most consequential household decisions: whether to have a child....
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In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...
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This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
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accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …
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We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is … order to obtain a higher payoff. A sender is positively biased if he thinks that he is higher in the deception distribution … information about the deception of his peers. The experimental data confirm this. We conclude that concern for relative standing …
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third …
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This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers' performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the...
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078393
accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884178