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Fairness That Money Can Buy - Procedural Egalitarianism in Practice

Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We suggest that procedures of monetarized bidding can facilitate co-operation in Elinor Ostrom type common(s) projects without crowding out communitarian faculties of "self-governance". Axioms securing procedurally egalitarian bidding on the basis of declared monetary evaluations are introduced....

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Unraveling Fairness in Simple Games? The Role of Empathy and Theory of Mind

Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Fillipos; Sääksvuori, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...

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On the Evolution of Preferences

Gamba, Astrid - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A common feature of the literature on the evolution of preferences is that evolution favors nonmaterialistic preferences only if preference types are observable at least to some degree. We argue that this result is due to the assumption that in each state of the evolutionary dynamics some...

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Why Consumers Pay Voluntarily: Evidence from Online Music

Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Customers of the online music label/store Magnatune can pay what they want for albums as long as the payment is within a given price range ($5-$18). On average, customers pay significantly more than they have to. We ran an online survey and collected responses from 227 frequent Magnatune...

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II: Experimental Evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …

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Giving in Dictator Games - Experimenter Demand Effect or Preference over the Rules of the Game?

Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...

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Social preferences under uncertainty

Gaudeul, Alexia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

's position vis-`a-vis others. Taking a bet can improve one's position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment …

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice I: Theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...

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Volunteering, Happiness and Public Policy

Binder, Martin; Freytag, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Is the activity of volunteering something that benefits the volunteer as well as the recipient of the volunteer's activities? We analyze this relationship and apply matching estimators to the large-scale British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set to estimate the causal impact of volunteering...

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Envy and Altruism in Children

Häger, Kirsten - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and … treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the other one studies altruism. Additionally, we collect data on the children …

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