Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

theft and most groups achieve much greater efficiency in the presence of communication. Ease of identifying who has engaged …

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

This study investigates the effects of the provision of costly initiatives on policy efficiency in a laboratory … theoretical predictions, the experimental data reveal a substantial indirect effect of direct democracy inducing higher efficiency … impedes excessive candidate competition during elections reducing campaign costs and thus increasing overall efficiency. In …

proposer's choice of the "pie" size. This has been shown to induce pie choices which are either efficiency or equality seeking … bias of competitive auctions. We find that entitlement crowds out equality seeking and strengthens efficiency seeking … ; Game ; Efficiency Seeking ; Inequity Aversion ; Satisficing …

Fairness is a strong concern as shown by the robust results of dictator giving and ultimatum experiments. Efficiency … provision games. In our experiment participants can increase efficiency by gift giving at the cost of reducing their own … for mutual gift giving. In both cases decisions can be conditioned on whether there is or there is not an efficiency gain …

focality of three properties of bargaining outcomes: equality, Pareto efficiency, and total earnings maximization. Our main …