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Fairness and Promises for Sale
Holm, Håkan; Daielson, Anders - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2004
the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … by changing to an unfair allocation. This modification appeared to make the trust aspect more salient which can explain a … relatively strong consistency between trust behavior and answers to attitudinal trust questions. …
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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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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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Free-riding on Communication: An Experimental Study
Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2010
This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds strong indications of such free-riding. Firstly, the subjects tend to wait for others to send a message when communication is costly, which does not happen when communication is...
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Detection Biases in Bluffing - Theory and Experiments
Holm, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2004
People may be better at recognizing lies than truths or better at recognizing truths than lies. Such detection biases are analyzed theoretically and experimentally. The detection bias shrinks the equilibrium set to a unique non-pooling equilibrium, in which, the better a player is to detect lies...
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Endogenous Communication and Tacit Coordination in Market Entry Games - An explorative experimental study
Andersson, Ola; Carlsson, Hans; Holm, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2006
This paper explores experimentally the effects of costly communication possibilities in market entry games. It is shown that these effects depend on whether entry costs are symmetric or asymmetric. In the former, but not the latter case, communication possibilities increase coordination success...
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Face-to-Face Lying – an experimental study in Sweden and Japan
Holm, Håkan J.; Kawagoe, Toshiji - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2008
This paper investigates face-to-face lying and beliefs associated with it. In experiments in Sweden and Japan, subjects answer questions about personal characteristics, play a face-to-face sender-receiver game and participate in an elicitation of lie-detection beliefs. The previous finding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645161
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On Axioms Underlying Use of Reserve Price
Mukherjee, Conan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2015
This paper establishes reserve price as an ethical necessity contrary to its popular interpretation as an instrument of revenue generation. It provides an axiomatic justification to reserve pricing at Vickrey auction in single as well as multiple objects settings. It also provides a multi-object...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253077
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Trust in surveys and games - a matter of money and location?
Holm, Håkan; Nystedt, Paul - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2005
This paper explores methods to study trust. Answers to survey questions and choices in a trust game are obtained from … between the results obtained by these methods were observed. Furthermore, one group of subjects played the trust game with … hypothetical payments. This changed trust behavior dramatically, whereas trustworthiness was unaffected. Subjects without financial …
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