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How to Preserve a Fortune: An Experimental Comparison of Foundations and Direct Transfers to the Heir
Güth, Werner; Koschmieder, Kurt-Dieter; Levati, M. Vittoria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
Direct transfers allow heirs to freely use what has been passed on to them. Bequeathers who do not trust their … trust their descendant. When transfers to the descendant are less efficient than investments in a foundation, due to, e …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765155
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Leading by example in a public goods experiment with heterogeneity and incomplete information
Levati, Maria Vittoria; Sutter, Matthias; Heijden, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung … - 2005
We study the effects of leadership on the private provision of a public good when group members are heterogeneously endowed. Leadership is implemented as a sequential public goods game where one group member contributes first and all the others follow. Our results show that the presence of a...
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Behavioural responses to unfair institutions : experimental evidence on rule compliance, norm polarisation, and trust
Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023
and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … compared to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in … trust. Finally, we find consistent evidence of peer effects: higher levels of peer compliance raise future compliance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319160
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Behavioural responses to unfair institutions : experimental evidence on rule compliance, norm polarisation, and trust
Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023
and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … compared to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in … trust. Finally, we find consistent evidence of peer effects: higher levels of peer compliance raise future compliance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321962
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The impact of payo interdependenceon trust and trustworthiness
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung …
In one-shot investment game experiments where each player's payo is a convexcombination of own and other's prot, trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866849
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300140
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308480
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
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Democratic punishment in public good games with perfect and imperfect observability
Ambrus, Attila; Greiner, Ben - 2015
In the context of repeated public good contribution games, we experimentally investigate the impact of democratic punishment, when members of a group decide by majority voting whether to inflict punishment on another member, relative to individual peer-to-peer punishment. Democratic punishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510711
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Efficiency in a forced contribution threshold public good game
Cartwright, Edward; Stepanova, Anna - 2015
three alternatives are based on ordinal potential, quantal response and impulse balance theory. We report an experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513482