IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Trading while sleepy? Circadian mismatch and mispricing in a global experimental asset market' in: Experimental Economics, First Online: 30 August 2019 (10.1007/s10683-019-09623-0)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10824

Revealing the Economic Consequences of Group Cohesion

Simon Gächter, Chris Starmer, Fabio Tufano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10823

The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment: First Evidence

Jeremy Clark, David L. Dickinson

revised version published in PLOS ONE (2020) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10781

Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs

Florian Engl, Arno Riedl, Roberto A. Weber

A revised version (January 2018) can be downloaded at http://www.arnoriedl.com/htm/papers.htm

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10753

Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals

Nikos Askitas

Published in: PLoS ONE, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10709

Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating

Erez Siniver, Yossef Tobol, Gideon Yaniv

forthcoming in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10683

Is Transparency an Anti-Corruption Myth?

Cameron K. Murray, Paul Frijters, Markus Schaffner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10626

Gender Differences in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competitive Behavior

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Rachel Frank, Emiliano Huet-Vaughn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10608

On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption

Ritwik Banerjee, Arnab Mitra

Published in : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.01.004)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10599

Discrimination as Favoritism: The Private Benefits and Social Costs of In-group Favoritism in an Experimental Labor Market

David L. Dickinson, David Masclet, Emmanuel Peterle

revised version published in the European Economic Review, 2018, 108(March): 220-236: DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.03.004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10576

Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews

forthcoming in: the Journal of the Economic Science Association

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10499

Anger Management: Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Laura Katherine Gee, Xinxin Lyu, Heather Urry

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10497

On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination

Ernesto Reuben, Krisztina Timko

published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2018, 4, 123-135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10364

Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions

Alison L. Booth, Elliott Fan, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang

Forthcoming in: The Economic Journal, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10258

Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics

Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher, Maik T. Schneider

published as 'Honesty and Self-Selection into Cheap Talk' in: The Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 2468–2496

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10175

The Tragedy of Corruption

Yefeng Chen, Shuguang Jiang, Marie Claire Villeval

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10105

Where to Look for the Morals in Markets?

Matthias Sutter, Jürgen Huber, Michael Kirchler, Matthias Stefan

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 30-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9998

Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness

Sebastian Fehrler, Wojtek Przepiorka

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 157-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9981

Testing for the Ratchet Effect: Evidence from a Real-Effort Work Task

Eric Cardella, Briggs Depew

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9946

Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Andrea Robbett, Prottoy Akbar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9901

Cooperation, Punishment and Organized Crime: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Southern Italy

Annamaria Nese, Niall O'Higgins, Patrizia Sbriglia, Maurizio Scudiero

published in: European Economic Review, Volume 107, August 2018, pp. 86–98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9872

On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question: Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs

Ritwik Banerjee

Published in European Journal of Political Economy, 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2018.04.008)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9859

Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital

Ritwik Banerjee

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 14–27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9766

Doing Your Best When Stakes Are High? Theory and Experimental Evidence

Nicolas Houy, Jean-Philippe Nicolaï, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Always doing your best? Effort and performance in dynamic settings' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 249-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9704

Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions

Dietmar Fehr, Matthias Sutter

published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2019, 113, 448-460.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9615

The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing

Simon Gächter, Leonie Gerhards, Daniele Nosenzo

revised version published in European Economic Review 97, August 2017, 72-86; doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.06.001

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9614

Same Process, Different Outcomes: Group Performance in an Acquiring a Company Experiment

Marco Casari, Jingjing Zhang, Christine Jackson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9506

On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining

Robert Feicht, Veronika Grimm, Holger A. Rau, Gesine Stephan

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 175-192.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9384

Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations

Lata Gangadharan, Nikos Nikiforakis, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9336

An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 140, 23-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9240

Social Responsibility in Market Interaction

Bernd Irlenbusch, David Saxler

completely revised and extended version published as 'The Role of Social Information, Market Framing, and Diffusion of Responsibility as Determinants of Socially Responsible Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 80, 141-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9110

Saving Face and Group Identity

Tor Eriksson, Lei Mao, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20 (3), 622-647

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9041

Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton

revised version published in: Experimental Economics 19(4), December 2016, 287-712; doi: 10.1007/s10683-015-9465-9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9027

How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Sebastian Fehrler, Niall Hughes

published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, 10, 181-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8973

Market Design and Moral Behavior

Michael Kirchler, Jürgen Huber, Matthias Stefan, Matthias Sutter

published in: Management Science, 2016, 62, 2615-2625

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8971

The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation: An Empirical Investigation

Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr, Richard Holden, Tom Wilkening

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8820

Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Peter Hans Matthews, Andrea Robbett

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8762

Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Marco Kleine, Sebastian Kube

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8739

Would I Care if I Knew? Image Concerns and Social Confirmation in Giving

Alexander S. Kritikos, Jonathan H. W. Tan

substantially revised version (available on request) published as "Influence in the Face of Impunity" in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 119-121.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8532

Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz, Yossef Tobol

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8504

Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games

Simon Gächter, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas, Alexander Vostroknutov

revised version published in Journal of Public Economics 150, June 2017, 1-13, doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.03.002

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8499

Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos

Extended version published as 'Intelligence Personality and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (3), 1351-1390

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8443

Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals

Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider, Niklas Wallmeier

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 128, 25-29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8404

Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight: Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation

Ernst Fehr, Michael Powell, Tom Wilkening

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8319

Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?

Stijn Baert, Ann-Sophie De Pauw

revised version published in: Economics Letters [Online Access]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8287

The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Gonne Beekman, Stephen L. Cheung, Ian Levely

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 63, 168-183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8236

Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (6), 1619-1676

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8218

Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners

David L. Dickinson, David Masclet, Marie Claire Villeval

Revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 126, 74-85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8217

Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

Haoran He, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Are group members less inequality averse than individual decision makers?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 138, 111-124.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8169

Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime

Stephan Meier, Lamar Pierce, Antonino Vaccaro

(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 132 (Part A), 78-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8135

Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Ghazala Azmat, Barbara Petrongolo

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 32-40

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7932

Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Zhixin Dai, Robin M. Hogarth, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 74, 146-162

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7629

Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Catia Batista, Dan Silverman, Dean Yang

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 118, 2-21 [Lead Article]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7610

Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7567

Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea

Byung-Yeon Kim, Syngjoo Choi, Jungmin Lee, Sokbae Lee, Kyunghui Choi

forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7499

Exploitation Aversion: When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, David Dolifka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7492

On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Ernesto Reuben, Frans van Winden

published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 40-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7411

Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions

Sebastian Fehrler, Michael Kosfeld

published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121, 400-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7307

Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis

Ronen Bar-El, Yossef Tobol

published as 'Fundraising to a real-life public good – evidence from the laboratory' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 65, 27-37 (with Yuval Arbel)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7207

Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Alison L. Booth, Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 168, 109-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7148

Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts

Sebastian Fehrler, Wojtek Przepiorka

published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013, 34, 139-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7125

Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment

Maria Bigoni, Margherita Fort

revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 192-214