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Matthias Kasper

@mkasper.bsky.social
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Private account. Affiliated researcher @EuckenInstitut. Formerly @univienna & @tulane

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Matthias Kasper @mkasper.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Institutional rules promote cooperation by strengthening personal and social norms, which in turn sustains contributions over time. In contrast, in the absence of a rule, norms are weaker and contributions decline steadily over time. (5/n)
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Matthias Kasper @mkasper.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Surprisingly, we find no evidence that biased audits erode norms, reduce cooperation, or diminish compliance. (4/n)
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Matthias Kasper @mkasper.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
That’s a wrap! Thank you for a great workshop on economic and consumer psychology hosted by the Walter Eucken Institut at @uni-freiburg.de. Looking forward to continuing the conversation at the University of Vienna in 2026!
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Matthias Kasper @mkasper.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
We also analyzed how likely sellers were to agree to a sale and found that offers above the reference price (green) were consistently more likely to be accepted than those below it (red). 4/
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Matthias Kasper @mkasper.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
And that’s exactly what we found. The left side shows that overall, bargaining & acceptance look similar. But the right side reveals a pattern: most bargaining happens when offers fall below the market price (the loss domain), while accepted offers often cluster just above it (the gain domain). 3/
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Matthias Kasper @mkasper.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
I always wondered about “no kangaroos in Austria” products. Well…
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