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LIVING IN TWO NEIGHBORHOODS—SOCIAL INTERACTION EFFECTS IN THE LABORATORY

  1. ARMIN FALK1,
  2. URS FISCHBACHER2,
  3. SIMON GÄCHTER3,†

Article first published online: 8 OCT 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00332.x

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Economic Inquiry

Economic Inquiry

Volume 51, Issue 1, pages 563–578, January 2013

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FALK, A., FISCHBACHER, U. and GÄCHTER, S. (2013), LIVING IN TWO NEIGHBORHOODS—SOCIAL INTERACTION EFFECTS IN THE LABORATORY. Economic Inquiry, 51: 563–578. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00332.x

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  1. 1

    Falk: University of Bonn, Lennéstr. 43, D-53113 Bonn, Germany; CESifo, Munich; IZA, Bonn; CEPR, London. Phone +49-228-73-9240, Fax +49-228-73-9239, E-mail armin.falk@uni-bonn.de

  2. 2

    Fischbacher: University of Konstanz, PO Box D 131, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany; Thurgau Institute of Economics, Hauptstrasse 90, CH-8280 Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. Phone +41-71677-0512, Fax +41-71677-0511, E-mail urs.fischbacher@uni-konstanz.de; fischbacher@twi-kreuzlingen.ch

  3. 3

    Gächter: University of Nottingham, School of Economics, The Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; CESifo, Munich; IZA, Bonn. Phone +44-115-846-6132, Fax +44-115-951-4159, E-mail simon.gaechter@nottingham.ac.uk

  1. †

    This paper was funded under the EU-TMR project ENDEAR (FMRX CT98-0238). Lukas Baumann, Michael Bolliger, Esther Kessler, and Christian Thöni provided very valuable research assistance. We received helpful comments from the referees and Gary Charness, Alan Durell, Stefano DellaVigna, Claudia Keser, Manfred Königstein, Michael Kosfeld, Charles Manski, Shepley Orr, Ekkehart Schlicht, Jason Shachat, Frans van Winden, and participants at seminars and conferences in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Essen, IBM T.J Watson (Yorktown Heights, USA), Jena, London, Munich, Norwich, St. Gallen, Venice, and Zürich. Simon Gächter gratefully acknowledges the hospitality of CES Munich, the University of Maastricht, and Bar-Ilan University (Israel) while working on this paper.

  1. †

    This paper was funded under the EU-TMR project ENDEAR (FMRX CT98-0238). Lukas Baumann, Michael Bolliger, Esther Kessler, and Christian Thöni provided very valuable research assistance. We received helpful comments from the referees and Gary Charness, Alan Durell, Stefano DellaVigna, Claudia Keser, Manfred Königstein, Michael Kosfeld, Charles Manski, Shepley Orr, Ekkehart Schlicht, Jason Shachat, Frans van Winden, and participants at seminars and conferences in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Essen, IBM T.J Watson (Yorktown Heights, USA), Jena, London, Munich, Norwich, St. Gallen, Venice, and Zürich. Simon Gächter gratefully acknowledges the hospitality of CES Munich, the University of Maastricht, and Bar-Ilan University (Israel) while working on this paper.

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