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...