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Conducts an experiment that an agent chooses between a lottery and a safe asset; payment from the chosen option goes to a principal, who then decides how much to allocate between the agent and a third party. They observe widespread blame: regardless of their choice, agents are blamed by principals for the outcome of the lottery, an event they are not responsible for.
Kuhn, Michael A. and Andrew Brownback, (2019). “Understanding Outcome Bias,” with Andy Brownback. Games and Economic Behavior Volume 117, September, Pages 342-360.
In a principal-agent experiment, we demonstrate that principals' judgments of agents are biased by luck, despite perfectly observable effort. This erodes the power of incentives to stimulate effort.
Abeler, Johannes., Daniele Nosenzo and Collin Raymond, (2016). “Preferences for Truth-Telling,” CESifo working paper series number 6087.
Combines data from 72 experimental studies in economics, psychology and sociology, and shows that people lie surprisingly little. None of the most popular explanations suggested in the literature can explain the data, while only combining a preference for being honest with a preference for being seen as honest can organize the empirical evidence.
Jin, Zhe Ginger., Michael Luca and Daniel Martin, (2018). “Is No News (Perceived As) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure,” NBER working paper number 21099.
Using laboratory experiments, directly tests a central prediction of disclosure theory: strategic forces can lead those who possess private information to voluntarily provide it. In a simple two-person disclosure game, results show that senders disclose favorable information, but withhold less favorable information.
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