Universität zu Köln

Verrina, Eugenio ORCID: 0000-0002-4442-4601 (2020). Essays on Moral and Ethical Behavior in Experimental Economics. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

This dissertation investigates moral, ethical and normative behavior in economic contexts via experiments. The first chapter studies narratives and their effects on prosocial behavior. The second chapter provides a robustness check of a study by Di Tella et al. (2015), but fails to replicate their findings on self-serving beliefs. The third chapter shows that alongside social norms also personal norms are an important driver of economic behavior and studies their interaction with image concerns. The fourth chapter investigates whether asymmetric information can lead to more unethical behavior in team decision-making.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Verrina, Eugenio eugenio.verrina@tiscali.it orcid.org/0000-0002-4442-4601 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-115954
Date:	2020
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Economics > Microeconomics, Institutions and markets > Professorship for Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Subjects:	Economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language moral and ethical behavior English social and personal norms English business ethics English
Date of oral exam:	14 July 2020
Referee:	Name Academic Title Rockenbach, Bettina Prof. Dr. Engel, Christoph Prof. Dr.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/11595