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We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … experiments by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. Most participants conform very well with the …
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issue differ widely, all concerns regard the independence of subjects' behavior within one session or experiment. This paper … attempts to shed some light on the independence of observations between experiments, if they are generated by the same subjects …. We analyze experiments with an allocation decision and find that participation in previous experiments tends to increase …
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The quadratic scoring rule (QSR) is often used to guarantee an incentive compatible elicitation of subjective probabilities over events. Experimentalists have regularly not been able to ensure that subjects fully comprehend the consequences of their actions on payoffs given the rules of the...
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appear only when the task is more likely to trigger loss aversion. -- elicitation methods ; experiment ; risk attitudes …
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This study is directly motivated by the results of Eckartz et al (2012). Subjects exerted suprisingly high efforts irrespectively of how they were compensated. This paper discusses a number of potential explanations and then it will focus on two of them: first, subjects might exert effort simply...
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Based on the "acquiring-a-company" game of Samuelson and Bazerman (1985), we theoretically and experimentally analyze the acquisition of a firm. Thereby we compare cases of symmetrically and asymmetrically informed buyers and sellers. This setting allows us to predict and test the effects of...
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This paper presents results from an experiment designed to study the effect of self reporting risk preferences on …
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E-nstructions facilitates the use of electronic instructions in computerized laboratory experiments. This tool has been … experimental softwares which help developing and conducting experiments. This article provides a set of guidelines for the … installation and the use of E-nstructions. -- Experiments ; Experimental software ; instructions …
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E-nstructions facilitates the use of electronic instructions in computerized laboratory experiments in social sciences …. In this article I provide a set of guidelines for the installation and the use of E-nstructions. -- Experiments …
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Banning deception in economic experiments does not exclude experiments with participants in the role of experimenters … experimenter-participants to test whether deception affects behaviour of participant-participants in a dictator experiment and … methods ; Deception ; Experiments …
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