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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.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015216051

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015217743

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015217874

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219809

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

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

experiments based on various dictator and prisoner’s dilemma games, we try to uncover which of these concepts, or the classical … selfishapproach, is able to explain most of our experimental findings. The experiments are special with regard to two aspects: First … the stability of individual behavior over time by running the same experiments on the same subjects at several points in …

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Axiom of Monotonicity: An Experimental Test

Sharma, Tridib; Vadovic, Radovan - 2010

those obtained by de Finetti (1930), von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944) and Savage (1954). The paper reports on experiments …

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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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Cournot or Stackelberg competition? A survey on experimental evidence

Hildenbrand, Andreas - 2010

In this survey, I look into experimental studies on duopolistic quantity competition with homogeneous products and duopolistic price competition with heterogeneous products. The focus is on the sequence of competition. That is, I summarize and analyze experimental studies checking Cournot...

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