Spoiling the party. Experimental evidence on the willingness to transmit inconvenient ethical information
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Keywords
willful ignorance; information avoidance; unethical behavior; lab experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2023-11-06 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2023-11-06 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2023-11-06 (Game Theory)
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