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204 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16020
Identity, Communication, and Conflict: An Experiment
Sumon K. Bhaumik, Subhasish M. Chowdhury, Ralitza Dimova, Hanna Fromell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15960
Guilt Aversion in (New) Games: Does Partners' Payoff Vulnerability Matter?
Giuseppe Attanasi, Claire Rimbaud, Marie Claire Villeval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15492
Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
David Gill, Yaroslav Rosokha
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15438
Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
Marco Lambrecht, Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15275
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15023
It’s Payback Time: New Insights on Cooperation in the Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma
Maria Bigoni, Marco Casari, Andrea Salvanti, Andrzej Skrzypacz, Giancarlo Spagnolo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14803
The Market for CEOs: Building Legacy and Feeling Empowered Matter
Arnaud Dupuy, John Kennes, Ran Sun Lyng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14788
Coevolution of Job Automation Risk and Workplace Governance
Filippo Belloc, Gabriel Burdin, Luca Cattani, William Ellis, Fabio Landini
published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (3), 104441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14688
Stable Marriage, Household Consumption and Unobserved Match Quality
Martin J. Browning, Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14621
Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Alessandro Cigno
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14524
On the Foundations of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers
James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14501
Search, Screening and Sorting
Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14242
Incentives for Cooperation in Teams: Sociality Meets Decision Rights
Britta Butz, Pablo Guillen Alvarez, Christine Harbring
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14142
Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-rational Goals
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13848
Diagnostic Uncertainty and Insurance Coverage in Credence Goods Markets
Loukas Balafoutas, Helena Fornwagner, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter, Maryna Tverdostup
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13328
Taxation in Matching Markets
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe, Scott Duke Kominers
published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61 (4), 1591-1634
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13128
A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough
Alessandro Cigno
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12950
Decomposing US Income Inequality à La Shapley: Race Matters, but Gender Too
Frédéric Chantreuil, Kévin Fourrey, Isabelle Lebon, Therese Rebiere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12948
Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo
Marie Christine Apedo-Amah, Habiba Djebbari, Roberta Ziparo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12925
Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini, Andis Sofianos
forthcoming: Review of Economic Studies
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12512
Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power
James Albrecht, Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12373
Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules
Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré, Annalisa Luporini
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 935-958
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12361
Switching Queues, Cultural Conventions, and Social Welfare
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: European Journal of Operational Research, 2019, 278 (3), 837 - 844
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12347
An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter
Revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics (accepted August 2021)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12267
Helping under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives
Anastasia Danilov, Bernd Irlenbusch, Christine Harbring
published in: in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2019, 162, 120-135
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12205
Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12180
To What Do People Contribute? Ongoing Operations vs. Sustainable Supplies
Yuval Arbel, Ronen Bar-El, Mordechai E. Schwarz, Yossef Tobol
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11916
Superstar Economists: Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Chih-Sheng Hsieh, Michael D. König, Xiaodong Liu, Christian Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11897
Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions
Fabian Dvorak, Sebastian Fehrler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11823
The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models
Karina Doorley, Arnaud Dupuy, Simon Weber
published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 176, 51-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11595
Voting as a War of Attrition
Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 167, 104-121, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11572
Marital Patterns and Income Inequality
Arnaud Dupuy, Simon Weber
published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 29-43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11540
Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
Gregory DeAngelo, Laura Katherine Gee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11130
The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction
Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi, Mahnaz Nazneen
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 209-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10900
A Note on the Estimation of Job Amenities and Labor Productivity
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13 (1), 153-177.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10723
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes
Archontis L. Pantsios, Solomon Polachek
published in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2017, 45 (2), 149-161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10520
Pledging, Praising and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in Ghana
Elwyn Davies, Marcel Fafchamps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10518
Using Response Times to Measure Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking in Games
David Gill, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10517
Conducting Interactive Experiments Online
Antonio A. Arechar, Simon Gächter, Lucas Molleman
revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 21(1), March 2018, 99-131; doi:10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2
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. 10468
Labor Market Regulation, International Trade and Footloose Capital
Tapio K. Palokangas
revised version "Public Policy, Footloose Capital, and Union Influence" published in: Review of International Economics, 2020, 28 (4), 976-991.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10396
Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Eilon Solan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10394
The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior
Ritwik Banerjee, Nabanita Datta Gupta, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 567-604
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10393
Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence
Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 687-712, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10171
The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10040
Do Parents Tax Their Children? Teenage Labour Supply and Financial Support
Angus J. Holford
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9950
Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation
Xiaoming Cai, Pieter A. Gautier, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473
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. 9703
Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
Steven J. Bosworth, Tania Singer, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9673
Sleep Restriction and Time‐of‐Day Impacts on Simple Social Interaction
David L. Dickinson, Todd McElroy
revised version published as "Sleep restriction and circadian effects on social decisions." in: European Economic Review, 2017 (online May 31): doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.05.002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9616
Religion, Discrimination and Trust
Swee Hoon Chuah, Simon Gächter, Robert Hoffmann, Jonathan H. W. Tan
revised version published in European Economic Review 90, November 2016, 280-301; doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.03.008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9566
"Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" Auctions: Effects of Changing Bargaining Power in Sequential Trading Mechanisms
Tim Grebe, Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Sabine Kröger
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. 9455
Firm-Size Wage Gaps along the Formal-Informal Divide: Theory and Evidence
Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen
published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55(2), 235-266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9412
The Welfare Effects of Globalization with Labor Market Regulation
Tapio K. Palokangas
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. 9251
Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity
Gabriel Burdin, Simon Halliday, Fabio Landini
revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9241
Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Robin Cubitt, Simon Gächter, Simone Quercia
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.06.013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9085
The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services
Loukas Balafoutas, Adrian Beck, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 129, 14-25
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8976
Improving the Allocation of Spots in Child Care Facilities for Toddlers in Germany: A Mechanism Design Approach
Sissa Carlsson, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8936
Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Jason M. Fletcher, Norma Padrón
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. 8707
Helping in Teams
Anastasia Danilov, Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8704
Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments
Nisvan Erkal, Steven Y. Wu, Brian E. Roe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8580
Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Simon Gächter, Elke Renner
revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.08.001
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. 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. 8357
Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets
Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 155, 1-15
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. 8202
The Illusion of School Choice: Empirical Evidence from Barcelona
Caterina Calsamiglia, Maia Güell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8104
Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter
slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8070
Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable
Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7896
Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting
Nikos Askitas
published as 'Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the predator' in: Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018, 12 (1), 471 - 485
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7683
Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards
Pablo Brañas-Garza, Antonio M. Espín, Shoshana Neuman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7625
Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options
Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Michael Rilke, Gari Walkowitz
completely revised and extended version published as 'Designing Feedback in Voluntary Contribution Games: The Role of Transparency" in: Experimental Economics 2019, 22(2), 552–576
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7541
The Economics of First-Contract Mediation
Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7487
Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
Almas Heshmati, Flávio Lenz-Cesar
published in: Research Evaluation, 2015, 24(3), 293-311.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7421
Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students
José Alberto Molina, J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José A. Cuesta, Carlos Garcia-Lazaro, Yamir Moreno, Angel Sanchez
published in: PLoS ONE, 2013, 8(12): e83700.
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. 7183
Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
Christine Binzel, Dietmar Fehr
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 103, 99-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7163
Competing with Asking Prices
Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7051
Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers
Maria Bigoni, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7025
Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
Joop Hartog, Michael Sattinger
published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 50-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6942
Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6750
Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior
Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks
revised version published as "Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic Behavior" in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 64, October, 2016, pp. 122-137.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6590
Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences
Aldo Rustichini, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 10-24.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6530
Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
Stéphane R. Robin, Agnieszka Rusinowska, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 16-38.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6415
Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages
Martin G. Kocher, Wolfgang J. Luhan, Matthias Sutter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6223
Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games
Arno Riedl, Ingrid M.T. Rohde, Martin Strobel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6179
The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Peter Martinsson
substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6087
Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining
Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 104-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5862
Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games
Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5802
Goals and Psychological Accounting
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
revised version published under title "Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting "in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5774
The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance
Simon Gächter, Esther Kessler, Manfred Königstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5689
New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
Stephen L. Cheung
revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 129-153
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5569
Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game
John Griffin, David Nickerson, Abigail Wozniak
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012,. 84(2), 600-617.
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