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Fairness and persuasion: How stakeholder communication affects impartial decision making

Kleine, Marco; Langenbach, Pascal; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2014

We study experimentally whether and to what extent impartial decision makers are influenced by stakeholders´ fairness … opinions in an allocation decision. The setting allows for different focal fairness rules to be considered. We compare … communication treatments, in which one of the stakeholders states his or her opinion prior to the allocation decision, to a baseline …

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How voice shapes reactions to impartial decision makers: An experiment

Kleine, Marco; Langenbach, Pascal; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2013

We study how participation in decision processes shapes people's behavior towards impartial authorities. In an incentivized laboratory experiment, an impartial decision maker at first decides about the allocation of money between two subordinates. Treatments differ in the opportunity for one...

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Bargaining in the absence of property rights: An experiment

Bar-Gill, Oren; Engel, Christoph - 2015

The Coase theorem posits: If [1] property rights are perfect, [2] contracts are enforceable, [3] preferences are common knowledge, and [4] transaction costs are zero, then the initial alloca-tion of property rights only matters for distribution, not for efficiency. In this paper we claim that...

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Fairness preferences in a bilateral trade experiment

Ciccone, Alice; Rogeberg, Ole; Braaten, Ragnhild Haugli - In: Games 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17

Is the willingness to make trades influenced by how the total gains from trade are split between the trading partners? We present results from a bilateral trade game (n = 128) where all participants were price-takers and trading pairs faced one of three exogenously imposed trading prices. The...

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Partial coercion, conditional cooperation, and self-commitment in voluntary contributions to public goods

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests

Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2016

We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary systematically the experimental norm of what is expected from trustees to return to trustors, both in terms of level of each request and in terms of sequence of the requests. Static...

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Let the Market Decide: An Experimental Study of Competition and Fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2014

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

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Let the market decide: An experimental study of competition and fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2014

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

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Unfair pay and health

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...

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Cardiovascular consequences of unfair pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011

health, and fairness of pay. …

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