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‘Hiding behind a small cake’ in a newspaper dictator game

Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 1, pp. 82-85

We conduct an Internet dictator game experiment in collaboration with the popular German Sunday paper “Welt am Sonntag …

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Scale manipulation in dictator games

Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 138-142

transfer expected by the recipients, compared to a treatment where they are asked to guess average transfers. Our experiment …

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Beliefs and ingroup favoritism

Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 453-462

We report on two experiments designed to investigate the role of beliefs for ingroup favoritism. On average, dictators transfer substantially more to recipients who are publicly known to share the same group identity, compared to transfers given to recipients who are publicly known to be...

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Timing of kindness – Evidence from a field experiment

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 111 (2015) C, pp. 79-87

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers …

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The dynamic interplay of inequality and trust—An experimental study

Greiner, Ben; Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 355-365

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic growth game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus … allows higher growth of the laboratory economy in the future. We find that trust (as measured by the percentage of wealth … invested in a trust game) is initially high in a treatment starting with equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a …

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