Social Preferences Under Risk - An Experimental Analysis

Social Preferences under Risk - An Experimental Analysis

The literature on social preferences provides overwhelming evidence of departures from pure self-interest of individuals. Experiments show that people care about others’ well-being and their relative standing. This paper investigates whether this type of behavior persists when risk comes into play. I devise an experiment which sheds light on the interrelation of risk and social preferences by m...

Ponti Social vs . risk preferences under the veil of ignorance

This paper reports experimental evidence from a Dictator Game experiment in which subjects choose repeatedly one out of four options involving a pair of fixed monetary prizes, one for them, one for another anonymously matched subject. In some sessions, player position (i.e. the identity of the best paid agent, constant across all options) is known in advance before subjects have to make their d...

Social Preferences in Experimental Economics

Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences

Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by expecta...

Social Preferences and Supply Chain Performance: An Experimental Study

A working paper in the INSEAD Working Paper Series is intended as a means whereby a faculty researcher's thoughts and findings may be communicated to interested readers. The paper should be considered preliminary in nature and may require revision. Supply chain contracting literature traditionally has focused on aligning incentives for economically rational players. Recent work has hypothesized...