Search Results - "Sefton, Martin"

PEER EFFECTS IN PRO-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: SOCIAL NORMS OR SOCIAL PREFERENCES? by Gächter, Simon, Sefton, Martin, Nosenzo, Daniele

“…We compare social preference and social norm–based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift exchange experiment. In the experiment a principal pays…”
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Long-Run Benefits of Punishment by Gächter, Simon, Renner, Elke, Sefton, Martin

“…Experiments have shown that punishment enhances socially beneficial cooperation but that the costs of punishment outweigh the gains from cooperation. This…”
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Cooperation in small groups: the effect of group size by Nosenzo, Daniele, Quercia, Simone, Sefton, Martin

“…We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments, we study four- and eight-person groups…”
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Risk-taking in social settings: Group and peer effects by Bougheas, Spiros, Nieboer, Jeroen, Sefton, Martin

“…•We examine the role of consultation and group decision making on risk-taking.•We replicate previous experiments showing higher risk-taking in groups relative…”
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THE EFFECT OF REWARDS AND SANCTIONS IN PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS by SEFTON, MARTIN, SHUPP, ROBERT, WALKER, JAMES M.

“…A growing number of field and experimental studies focus on the institutional arrangements by which individuals are able to solve collective action problems…”
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To tender or not to tender? Deliberate and exogenous sunk costs in a public good game by Heine, Florian, Sefton, Martin

“…In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the…”
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Gaining power through enlargement: Strategic foundations and experimental evidence by Drouvelis, Michalis, Montero, Maria, Sefton, Martin

“…Power indices suggest that adding new members to a voting body may affect the balance of power between the original members even if their number of votes and…”
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Social comparisons in job search by Fu, Jingcheng, Sefton, Martin, Upward, Richard

“…Using a laboratory experiment we examine how social comparisons affect behavior in a sequential search task. In a control treatment subjects search in…”
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Multi-unit auctions: A comparison of static and dynamic mechanisms by Manelli, Alejandro M., Sefton, Martin, Wilner, Benjamin S.

“…We compare, experimentally, the Vickrey auction and an ascending-price auction introduced by Ausubel [Ausubel, L.M., 2004. An efficient ascending-bid auction…”
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Information feedback and contest structure in rent-seeking games by Fallucchi, Francesco, Renner, Elke, Sefton, Martin

“…We investigate the effects of information feedback in rent-seeking games with two different contest structures. In the share contest a contestant receives a…”
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Communication with partially verifiable information: An experiment by Burdea, Valeria, Montero, Maria, Sefton, Martin

“…We use laboratory experiments to study communication games with partially verifiable information. In these games, based on Glazer and Rubinstein (2004, 2006),…”
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Identifying social norms using coordination games: Spectators vs. stakeholders by Erkut, Hande, Nosenzo, Daniele, Sefton, Martin

“…We investigate social norms for dictator game giving using a recently proposed norm-elicitation procedure (Krupka and Weber, 2013). We elicit norms separately…”
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Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation by Baader, Malte, Gächter, Simon, Lee, Kyeongtae, Sefton, Martin

“…Abstract We experimentally examine how incentives affect conditional cooperation (i.e., cooperating in response to cooperation and defecting in response to…”
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A self-funding reward mechanism for tax compliance by Fatas, Enrique, Nosenzo, Daniele, Sefton, Martin, Zizzo, Daniel John

“…We compare in a laboratory experiment two audit-based tax compliance mechanisms that collect fines from those found non-compliant. The mechanisms differ in the…”
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How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence? by Murad, Zahra, Sefton, Martin, Starmer, Chris

“…We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence elicitation procedures: self-reported…”
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Team incentives and leadership by Drouvelis, Michalis, Nosenzo, Daniele, Sefton, Martin

“…•We compare 2 mechanisms for team effort provision and how teams choose between them.•In one mechanism team output is shared equally among team members.•In the…”
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The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma by Gächter, Simon, Lee, Kyeongtae, Sefton, Martin, Weber, Till O.

“…The Prisoner's Dilemma is arguably the most important model of social dilemmas, but our knowledge about how its material payoff structure affects cooperation…”
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Combining “real effort” with induced effort costs: the ball-catching task by Gächter, Simon, Huang, Lingbo, Sefton, Martin

“…We introduce the “ball-catching task”, a novel computerized task, which combines a tangible action (“catching balls”) with induced material cost of effort. The…”
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Leading-by-example and signaling in voluntary contribution games: an experimental study by Potters, Jan, Sefton, Martin, Vesterlund, Lise

“…We report experimental results on the effect of leadership in a voluntary contribution game. Consistent with recent theories we find that leading-by-example…”
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Implementation by Iterative Dominance and Backward Induction: An Experimental Comparison by Katok, Elena, Sefton, Martin, Yavas, Abdullah

“…We report experimental results on the relative performance of simultaneous and sequential versions of the Abreu–Matsushima mechanism. Under the simultaneous…”
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