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, the ultimatum game and the trust game. All subjects in a session earn the same participation fee, but their choices affect … waiting time. In the trust game, there is substantial trust and reciprocity. Overall, social preferences are evident in time … allocation decisions. Received laboratory results from dictator, ultimatum, and trust games are robust to the change in reward …
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We let subjects interact with anonymous partners in trust (investment) games with and without one of two kinds of pre …
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How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary...
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This paper investigates the importance of concerns about intentions and outcomes in a sequential prisoner’s dilemma game with nature. In the game, there is a chance that the first mover’s choice is reversed. This allows the separation of intended actions from the resulting outcomes....
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altruism, trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. For non-social experiences, we find no effect on subsequent behavior in any …
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This paper examines the motivation for intergenerational transfers between adult children and their parents, and the nature of preferences for such giving behaviour, in an experimental setting. Participants in our experiment play a series of dictator games with parents and strangers, in which we...
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We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering...
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Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of future mobility and the belief that society offers equal opportunities. We add to previous research by investigating the role of individual and social norms on rent seeking. We find...
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This article closes a gap in the theory of trust law by supplying a normative account of the use of trusts to avoid and … ages, a fact acknowledged by jurists, doctrinal and textbook authors for centuries, theorists of trust law have largely … subversion use of trusts should be, and usually is, curtailed, principally by anti-subversion norms found outside trust law …
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