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Gender and Redistribution: Experimental Evidence

Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis; van der Weele, Joël - 2016

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender differences in confidence concerning future relative income...

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Willingness to compete in dirty competitions

Buser, Thomas; Sangi, Sahar - 2025

Competitive environments often leave room for "dirty" practices such as sabotage, retaliation, or dishonesty. We use an online experiment to document aggregate levels and individual differences in the willingness to engage in dirty competition and in the willingness to enter competitions where...

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What can the Big Five Personality Factors contribute to explain Small-Scale Economic Behavior?

Muller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - 2012

predicting behavior in the trust or investment game. We can also use the trust game to understand how personality measures fare …Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be …

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The Dark Side of Personality: Anti-Sociality Increases Strategic Game Play

Engelmann, Jan; Schmid, Basil; Chumbley, Justin; Fehr, Ernst - 2018

personality on investor trust and trustee reciprocity in the presence relative to the absence of the investor’s option to punish … counterparts. The reliability of the strategic effects of anti-social personality during trust, reciprocity and punishment strongly …We assess the role of anti-social personality traits in explaining heterogeneity in commonly observed social …

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Dynamic Choice, Independence and Emotions

Hopfensitz, Astrid; van Winden, Frans - 2006

From the viewpoint of the independence axiom of expected utility theory, an interesting empirical dynamic choice problem involves the presence of a “global risk,” that is, a chance of losing everything whichever safe or risky option is chosen. In this experimental study, participants have to...

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Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study

Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2007

Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure. In contrast,...

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Errors in Judicial Decisions

Sonnemans, Joep; van Dijk, Frans - 2008

In criminal cases the task of the judge is to transform the uncertainty about the facts into the certainty of the verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective probability of guilt and verdict for abstract cases. We look at...

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Investment, Resolution of Risk, and the Role of Affect

van Winden, Frans; Krawczyk, Michal; Hopfensitz, Astrid - 2008

This experimental study is concerned with the impact of the timing of the resolution of risk onpeople's willingness to take risks, with a special focus on the role of affect. While the importanceof anticipatory emotions has so far been only inferred from decisions regarding hypothetical...

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Separating Real Incentives and Accountability

Vieider, Ferdinand M. - 2008

In experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability—the implicit or explicit expectation of a decision maker that she may have to justify her decisions in front of somebody else—is often confounded with the incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability...

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A Dynamic Model of Investor Decision-Making: How Adaptation to Losses affects Future Selling Decisions

Lee, Carmen; Kraeussl, Roman; Lucas, André; Paas, … - 2008

We conduct an experiment to test whether the size of a loss and the time in a losing position affect investors’ adaptation to the loss situation and, subsequently, whether this adaptation affects future investment decisions. As investors adapt to losses, their neutral reference point shifts...

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