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In a duopoly market, aspiration levels express how much sellers want to earn given their expectations about the other's behavior. We augment the sellers' decision task by eliciting their profit aspiration. In a first experimental phase, whenever satisficing is not possible, sales choices, point...
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this desire conflicts with other strong motivationsa typical reaction is to trade off fairness against these other concerns …. Inequ(al)ity aversion allows capturing such trade off considerations in various ways(Bolton, 1991, Bolton and Ockenfels …, 1998 and 2000, Fehr and Schmidt, 1999,are examples).Such trade off analysis measures how far one deviates from fairness …
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The Trust Game describes a situation where mutually beneficial trade is endangered by opportunistic exploitation. In … competing outcomes should be expected, i.e. whether or not banks can indeed promote trade. …
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Can one define and test the hypothesis of (un)bounded rationality in stochastic choice tasks without endorsing Bayesianism? Similar to the state specificity of assets, we rely on state-specific goal formation. In a given choice task, the list of state-specific goal levels is optimal if one...
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We study interaction effects between intra-firm conflicts and interfirm competition on a duopolistic market with seller firms employing one or more agents and implementing tournament incentives. We show that inter-firm competition leads to higher incentive intensity, higher efforts and output...
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Though the social choice of social institutions or social results is impossible there is, strictly speaking, no social … choice individual evaluations of social institutions or results trivially are possible. Such individual evaluations can be … deemed liberal either because they emphasize political institutions that embody liberal values (political liberalism) or …
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Although one may hope to achieve equality of stated profits without enforcing it, one may not trust in such voluntary equality seeking and rather try to impose rules (of bidding) guaranteeing it. Our axiomatic approach is based on envy-free net trades according to bids which, together with the...
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