Search Results - "Tan, Jonathan H.W."
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Religion, discrimination and trust across three cultures
Published in European economic review (01-11-2016)“…We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially identified and connected. Religiosity and…”
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When Lone Wolf Defectors Undermine the Power of the Opt-Out Default
Published in Scientific reports (02-06-2020)“…High levels of cooperation are a central feature of human society, and conditional cooperation has been proposed as one proximal mechanism to support this. The…”
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Influence in the Face of Impunity
Published in Economics letters (01-04-2016)“…We compare dictator and impunity games. In impunity games, responders can reject offers but to no payoff consequence to proposers. Because proposers act under…”
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Understanding perpetual R&D races
Published in Economic theory (01-09-2010)“…This paper presents an experimental study of dynamic indefinite horizon R&D races with uncertainty and multiple prizes. The theoretical predictions are highly…”
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Indenture as a Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test
Published in Southern economic journal (01-01-2009)“…We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment on…”
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How do intercultural proximity and social fragmentation promote international patent cooperation?
Published in Small business economics (01-06-2024)“…Joint innovation across countries plays a vital role in international networks of knowledge-intensive businesses. We study how the cultural backgrounds of…”
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Intragroup punishment and intergroup conflict aversion weaken intragroup cooperation in finitely repeated games
Published in Journal of behavioral and experimental economics (01-08-2023)“…•We experimentally analyze behavior in repeated games when helping people in one's group hurts those in other groups.•Intergroup conflict aversion weakens…”
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Why should majority voting be unfair?
Published in Journal of economic behavior & organization (01-07-2020)“…The common use of majority rule in group decision making is puzzling. In theory, it inequitably favors the proposer, and paradoxically, it disadvantages voters…”
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Who discriminates? Evidence from a trust game experiment across three societies
Published in Journal of economic psychology (01-08-2023)“…What personal characteristics are associated with the extent to which individuals discriminate against particular groups? We use an incentive-compatible…”
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A test of loyalty
Published in Theory and decision (01-08-2024)“…We propose and test a model of loyalty in games. Players can mutually maintain loyalty by working towards a common goal that is pareto-superior to any Nash…”
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Religion and trust: An experimental study
Published in Journal of economic psychology (01-12-2008)“…What is the relationship between religion and trust? Using a questionnaire, we elicit data on individual religiosity. Measures of individual religiosity are…”
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Is there a "Spirit of Overseas Chinese Capitalism?"
Published in Small business economics (01-12-2016)“…The economic miracle of the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia has been attributed to their unique economic culture forged from Confucian thought and the…”
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Religion, ethnicity and cooperation: An experimental study
Published in Journal of economic psychology (01-12-2014)“…•We report a prisoner’s dilemma experiment with a multi-cultural subject pool.•Subjects’ religions and ethnicities were revealed to or concealed from…”
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Team competition and the public goods game
Published in Economics letters (01-07-2007)“…We experimentally investigate the effect of intergroup competition – with/out monetary incentives to win – on intragroup cooperation. In one-shot games,…”
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Vendettas
Published in American economic journal. Microeconomics (01-05-2014)“…Vendettas occur in many real-world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning a competitive promotion or retaining a job, by engaging in…”
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Religion and social preferences: An experimental study
Published in Economics letters (2006)“…This paper explores the relationship between religion and social preferences. Religiosity is elicited with a multi-item questionnaire, and social preferences…”
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Voluntary contributions by consent or dissent
Published in Games and economic behavior (01-07-2015)“…•In consent games contributions start low and can be increased.•In dissent games contributions start high and can be decreased.•In equilibrium, contributions…”
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On the beliefs off the path: Equilibrium refinement due to quantal response and level-k
Published in Games and economic behavior (01-07-2014)“…The extensive form game we study has multiple perfect equilibria, but it has a unique limiting logit equilibrium (QRE) and a unique level-k prediction as k…”
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Reference dependent altruism in demand bargaining
Published in Journal of economic behavior & organization (01-08-2013)“…•We experimentally investigate bargaining preferences using the three-player demand bargaining game.•Different preferences induce different behavioral…”
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Game Harmony: A Behavioral Approach to Predicting Cooperation in Games
Published in The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) (01-08-2011)“…Game harmony describes how harmonious (nonconflictual) or disharmonious (conflictual) the interests of players are in a game, as embodied in the game’s raw…”
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