Michel André Maréchal

Framing Effects in Political Decision Making: Evidence From a Natural Voting Experiment

Monika Bütler, Michel André Maréchal

This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates...

Framing Effects in Political Decision Making: Evidence from a Natural Voting Experiment

Monika Buetler, Michel André Maréchal

This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates...

Framing Effects in Political Decision Making: Evidence From a Natural Voting Experiment

Bütler, Monika, Maréchal, Michel André

This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates...

Do Managers Reciprocate? Field Experimental Evidence From a Competitive Market

Michel André Maréchal, Christian Thöni

A substantive amount of lab experimental evidence suggests that the norm of reciprocity has important economic consequences. However, it is unclear whether the norm of reciprocity survives in a...

Putting Reciprocity to Work - Positive versus Negative Responses in the Field

Sebastian Kube, Michel André Maréchal, Clemens Puppe

We study the role of reciprocity in a labor market field experiment. In a recent paper, Gneezy and List (2006) investigate the impact of gift exchange in this context and find that it has only a...

The Currency of Reciprocity - Gift-Exchange in the Workplace

Sebastian Kube, Michel André Maréchal, Clemens Puppe

What determines reciprocity in employment relations? We conducted a controlled field experiment and tested the extent to which cash and non-monetary gifts affect workers' productivity. Our main...

Elections and Deceptions: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Luca Corazzini, Sebastian Kube, Michel André Maréchal, Antonio Nicoló

The virtue of democratic elections has traditionally been seen in their role as a means of screening and sanctioning shirking public officials. This paper proposes a novel rationale for elections and...

Two are better than one!: Individuals' contributions to "unpacked" public goods

Bernasconi, Michele, Corazzini, Luca, Kube, Sebastian, Maréchal, Michel André

We experimentally demonstrate how "unpacking" provides a possible approach for mitigating the dilemma of public goods provision through private contributions. Subjects' total contributions increase...