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What Price Fairness? A Bargaining Study
Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999
Our study concerns bargaining behavior in situations where one party is in a stronger position than the other. We investigate both the tradeoff the favored party makes between pursuing his strategic advantage and giving weight to other players' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the...
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When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non- cooperation
Houser, Daniel; Xiao, Erte; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2005
People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062715
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Trust and Reciprocity in Incentive Contracting
Rigdon, Mary - EconWPA - 2005
Principals can attempt to get agents to perform certain actions preferable to the principal by using ex post}punishments and rewards to align incentives. Field data is mixed on whether, and to what extent, such informal incentive contracting (paradoxically) crowds out efficient solutions to the...
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Sustaining Cooperation in trust Games
McCabe, Kevin; Rigdon, Mary; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2004
-person trust game. Players are typed based on their recent track record as whether or not they are trusting (Players 1) and whether …
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Trust among Strangers
Ho, Teck-Hua; Weigelt, Keith - EconWPA - 2005
The trust building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multi …-stage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. And in each stage, players have an … trusting behavior. So, we study the trust building process where there is little scope for social relations and networks …
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Does Competition Affect Giving? An Experimental Study
Duffy, John; Kornienko, Tatiana - EconWPA - 2005
We explore whether natural human competitiveness can be exploited to stimulate charitable giving in a controlled laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential ``dictator game.'' Without disclosing the actual amounts given and kept, in each period players are publicly...
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Social norms and human cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004
The existence of social norms is one of the big unsolved problems in social cognitive science. Although no other concept is invoked more frequently in the social sciences, we still know little about how social norms are formed, the forces determining their content, and the cognitive and...
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Individual Preferences for Giving
Fisman, Raymond; Kariv, Shachar; Markovits, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reports an experimental test of individual preferences for giving. We use graphical representations of modified Dictator Games that vary the price of giving. This generates a very rich data set well- suited to studying behavior at the level of the individual subject. We test the data...
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...
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The nature of human altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004
Some of the most fundamental questions concerning our evolutionary origins, our social relations, and the organization of society are centred around issues of altruism and selfishness. Experimental evidence indicates that human altruism is a powerful force and is unique in the animal world....
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