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The Virtue Ethics Hypothesis: Is there a nexus between virtues and well-being?
Koch, Christian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
Why do some people behave pro-socially while others do not? Using an experimental design based on Konow and Earley (JPubE, 2008), I investigate a reason already proposed by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics: He claims that there is a nexus between virtues and well-being and that enduring...
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Community Enforcement and the Emergence of Trust
Rodríguez-Sickert, Carlos - Econometric Society - 2004
In this paper, the link between community enforcement and co-operation in environments where trust is required is … investigated. For this purpose, an assymetric trust game in which peer-to-peer sanctioning mechanisms are available is considered …, which enforces trust honouring within the trustees' community and b) the emergence of trust between-communities are analysed …
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Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Rilke, Rainer; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
We experimentally investigate the relevance of (asymmetric) outside options in ultimatum bargaining. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978) we derive three di erent equity rules. These equity rules can explain 43% of all o ers. Our within-subject design allows...
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The Effect of Belief Elicitation Game Play
Hoffmann, Timo - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
The assumptions that subjects hold beliefs and that the chosen actions are not altered by a proper elicitation of these beliefs are widely used in economics. In this paper I experimentally test whether the second assumption is correct. Especially controlling for different game properties, I nd...
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The Role of Trust in Costly Network Formation
Sarangi, Sudipta; Gilles, Robert P. - Econometric Society - 2004
. Furthermore, we introduce a new eqilibrium concept based on a limited, realistic form of farsightedness or (myopic) ''trust'' in …
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Timing of Kindness Evidence from a Field Experiment
Werner, Peter; Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers performance is about 11% higher for the...
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Fair Inheritance Taxation in the Presence of Tax Planning
Wrede, Matthias - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper analyzes to what extent tax planning impacts on the level of the inheritance tax rate perceived as fair. In a factorial survey conducted in Germany it finds out that tax planning increases the fair tax rate by roughly 4 percentage points. The fair tax rate is not only determined by...
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Tailored Bayesian Mechanisms: Experimental Evidence from Two-Stage Voting Games
Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
Optimal voting rules have to be adjusted to the underlying distribution of preferences. However, in practice there usually is no social planner who can perform this task. This paper shows that the introduction of a stage at which agents may themselves choose voting rules according to which they...
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The Social Value of Transparency and Accountability: Experimental Evidence from Asymmetric Public Good Games
Khadjavi, Menusch; Lange, Andreas; Nicklisch, Andreas - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
Transparency and accountability are often regarded as crucial for good governance and the efficient organization of public affairs. To systematically explore the impact of transparency and accountability on cooperation, we conduct a series of laboratory experiments on a variation of the public...
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Deception Choice and Audit Design - The Importance of Being Earnest
Lohse, Tim; Konrad, Kai A.; Qari, Salmai - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
We study deception choices and deception detection in a tax compliance experiment. We find large systematic differences in individual deception abilities. Tax payers are conscious about their own deception abilities. The empirical outcomes are in line with a theory suggesting that tax payers...
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