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Szech, Nora - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 1, pp. 244-257

We analyze a market with n rational firms (doctors) and a continuum of boundedly rational consumers (patients). Following Spiegler (2006a), we assume that patients are not familiar with the market and rely on anecdotes. We analyze the price setting game played by doctors with given, different...

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More Effort with Less Pay : On Information Avoidance, Belief Design and Performance

Huck, Steffen - 2015

In a tedious real effort task, subjects know that their piece rate is either low or ten times higher. When subjects are informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this instrumental information when given the choice - and...

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Diffusion of being pivotal and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2017

We study how the diffusion of being pivotal affects immoral outcomes. In a first set of experiments, subjects decide … second set of experiments, we run the same baseline and main conditions but use a charity context and additionally study ….e., when we repeat the experiment for a second time. Finally, we report evidence on beliefs, elicited in our main experiments …

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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