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We experimentally test whether intentional and observable discriminatorypay of symmetric agents in the Winter (2004 …
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We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility(CSR) on workers’ motivation. In our experiment … investments into CSR with increased effort. Amission match does result in higher effort, but only when investment into CSRis high. …
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Actual behaviour is inuenced in important ways by moral emotions,for instance guilt or shame (see among others Tangney et al., 2007). Belief-dependant models of social preferences using the framework of psycho-logical games aim to consider such emotions to explain other-regardingbehaviour. Our...
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We present an experiment designed to test the Modigliani-Miller theorem. Applyinga general equilibrium approach and not …, participantswell recognize changes in the systematic risk of equity associated with increasingleverage and, accordingly, demand higher … rate of return. Yet, this adjustment is notperfect: subjects underestimate the systematic risk of low-leveraged equity …
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process in which normative conflicts explain the nally emerging norm. The theory is tested with adynamical experiment on …
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. In our experiment, before playing the generosity game,participants are asked to buy their role via a random price ….Interpreting participants' willingness to pay as an aspiration level of how muchthey want to earn, our design further allows us to test for …
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Unlike previous attempts to implement cooperation in a prisoners’ dilemma gamewith an infinite horizon in the laboratory, we focus on extended prisoners’ dilemmagames in which a second (pure strategy) equilibrium allows for voluntary cooperationin all but the last round. Our four main...
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ofbehavior persists when risk comes into play. I devise an experiment which sheds light onthe interrelation of risk and social … preferences by measuring (1) individual risk preferences,(2) interpersonal risk preferences, and (3) social preferences under … certainty. The resultsreveal that a large share of subjects choose to accept more risk or less potential gain thanindividually …
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We analyze the effects of asymmetric information concerning thesize of a pie on proposer behavior in three different bargaining situations:the ultimatum game, the Yes-No-game and the dictator game.Our data show that (a) irrespective of the information condition, proposergenerosity increases with...
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making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions withsalient group membership are largely the …
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