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author = "Charness, Gary"
Bargaining Efficiency and Screening: An Experimental Investigation
Author(s) :
Charness, Gary
Description :
This paper investigates whether information about fairness types can be useful in lowering dispute costs and enhancing bargaining efficiency. An experiment was conducted in which subjects were first screened using a dictator game, with the allocations chosen used to separate participants into two ty...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
Attribution and Reciprocity in a Simulated Labor Market: An Experimental Investigation
Author(s) :
Charness, Gary
Description :
While papers such as Akerlof and Yellen (1990) and Rabin (1993) argue that psychological considerations such as fairness and reciprocity are important in individual decision-making, there is little explicit empirical evidence of reciprocal altruism in economic environments. This paper tests whether ...
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e-Repositori UPF
Language(s) :
English
Pre-Play Communication and Credibility: A Test of Aumann's Conjecture
Author(s) :
Charness, Gary
Description :
The effectiveness of pre-play communication in achieving efficient outcomes has long been a subject of controversy. In some environments, cheap talk may help to achieve coordination. However, Aumann conjectures that, in a variant of the Stag Hunt game, a signal for efficient play is not self-enforci...
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e-Repositori UPF
Language(s) :
English
Responsibility-Allevation and Effort Provision in a Gift-Exchange Experiment
Author(s) :
Charness, Gary
Description :
Previous indirect evidence suggests that impulses towards pro-social behavior are diminished when an external authority is responsible for an outcome. The responsibility-alleviation effect states that a shift of responsibility to an external authority dampens internal impulses toward honesty, loyalt...
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e-Repositori UPF
Language(s) :
Spanish
Reputation and Honesty in a Market for Information
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Previous works on asymmetric information in asset markets tend to focus on the potential gains in the asset market itself. We focus on the market for information and conduct an experimental study to explore, in a game of finite but uncertain duration, whether reputation can be an effective constrain...
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e-Repositori UPF
Language(s) :
English
Retribution in a Cheap-talk Experiment
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We use a two-person 3-stage game to investigate whether people choose to punish or reward another player by sacrificing money to increase or decrease the other person's payoff. One player sends a message indicating an intended play, which is either favorable or unfavorable to the other player in the...
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e-Repositori UPF
Language(s) :
English
Hot vs. Cold: Sequential Responses and Preference Stability in Experimental Games
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In experiments with two-person sequential games we analyze whether responses to favorable and unfavorable actions depend on the elicitation procedure. In our hot treatment the second player responds to the first player s observed action while in our cold treatment we follow the strategy method ...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
An Experiment on Nash Implementation
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We perform an experimental test of Maskin's canonical mechanism for Nash implementation, using 3 subjects in non-repeated groups, as well as 3 outcomes, states of nature, and integer choices. We find that this mechanism succesfully implements the desired outcome a large majority of the time and an i...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
Self-serving Biases: Evidence from a Simulated Labor Relationship
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Previous studies have found evidence of a self-serving bias in bargaining and dispute resolution. We use experimental data to test for this effect in a simulated labor relatonship. We find a consistent discrepancy between employer beliefs and employee actions that can only be attributed to self-serv...
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e-Repositori UPF
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English
Altruism, Equity, and Reciprocity in a Gift-Exchange Experiment: An Encompassing Approach
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Considerable experimental evidence suggests that non-pecuniary motives must be addressed when modeling behavior in economic contexts. Recent models of non-pecuniary motives can be classified as either altruism- based, equity-based, or reciprocity-based. We estimate and compare leading approaches in ...
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e-Repositori UPF
Language(s) :
English