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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Dürsch, Peter - 2010

experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from a possible demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects …? In our experiment we observe that the subjects almost never use punishment. Consistently, the data shows no increase in … vergleichen das Verhalten der Teilnehmer in zwei Situationen: Certain Punishment, in welcher ein Gefangenendilemma um eine …

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Productivity or privilege: Game-theoretic and experimental models of social class

Gunnthorsdottir, Anna; Thorsteinsson, Palmar - 2024

Social stratification, segregation and inequity invite concerns about fairness and social harmony. Our game-theoretic and experimental results indicate that they can also be detrimental to productivity, efficiency, and welfare. Class is defined by players’ resources, incentives to make a...

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Communication channels and induced behavior

Brosig, Jeannette - 2006

This paper reports recent findings on the effects of cheap talk communication on behavior. It exemplifies how different communication channels influence decisions in various games and information environments and addresses possible consequences for the design of real-world economic environments.

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Sorting with shame in the laboratory

Ong, David - 2008

Trust is indispensable to fiduciary fields (e.g., credit rating), where experts exercise wide discretion on others behalf. Can the shame from scandal sort trustworthy people out of a fiduciary field? I tested for the possibility in a charitable contribution game where subjects could be...

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Menstrual cycle and competitive bidding

Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C - 2009

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we …

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The Visible Hand: Finger ratio (2D:4D) and competitive behavior

Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C - 2009

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we scan …

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Sorting with shame in the laboratory

Ong, David - 2008

Trust is indispensable to fiduciary fields (e.g., credit rating), where experts exercise wide discretion on behalf of others. Can the shame from a scandal sort trustworthy people out of a fiduciary field? I tested for the possibility that a shame externality can sort in a charitable contribution...

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Selfish in the End?:An Investigation of Consistency and Stability of individual Behavior

Brosig, Jeannette; Riechmann, Thomas; Weimann, Joachim - 2007

This paper puts three of the most prominent specifications of ‘other-regarding’ preferences to the experimental test, namely the theories developed by Charness and Rabin, by Fehr and Schmidt, and by Andreoni and Miller. In a series of experiments based on various dictator and prisoner’s...

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Axiom of Monotonicity: An Experimental Test

Sharma, Tridib; Vadovic, Radovan - 2010

that directly test AM by eliminating strategic uncertainty, context, and peer effects. In this sterile and simple … environment we do not observe AM violations under uncertainty but we do observe violations under ambiguity. …

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Costly and discrete communication: An experimental investigation

Duffy, Sean; Hartwig, Tyson; Smith, John - 2010

Language is an imperfect and uneven means of communicating information about a complex and nuanced world. We run an experimental investigation of a setting in which the messages available to the sender imperfectly describe the state of the world, however the sender can improve communication, at...

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