• openAccess   A technical note on the precise timing of behavioral events in economic experiments 

      Perakakis, Pandelis; Guinot Saporta, Jose Vicente; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos Elsevier (2018-08)
      The increasing use of physiological recordings in experimental economics requires a precise timing of interesting events, such as the presentation of a set of choices, the decision-making moment and the reception of feedback ...
    • openAccess   An experimental study on the effect of co-payment in public services 

      García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; Staffiero, Gianandrea Elsevier (2016-08-08)
      This paper aims to shed light on the impacts of imposing co-payment on public services, a strategy increasingly employed in the realm of publicly provided healthcare. We analyze the effect of imposing a charge for the ...
    • openAccess   Audience effects and other-regarding preferences against corruption: Experimental evidence 

      García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; Michailidou, Georgia Elsevier (2020-10-22)
      We report results from an experiment in which two firms compete for a public project by submitting offers of quality and bribery to a public official. We study the impact of audience effects (transparency) and other regarding ...
    • openAccess   Context-dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries 

      Pascual Ezama, David; Fosgaard, Toke R.; Cárdenas, Juan Camilo; Kujal, Praveen; Veszteg, Robert; Gil Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz; Gunia, Brian; Weichselbaumer, Doris; Hilken, Katharina; Antinyan, Armenak; Delnoij, Joyce; Proestakis, Antonios; Tira, Michael D.; Pratomo, Yulius; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; Brañas Garza, Pablo Elsevier (2015-08)
      Policy makers use several international indices that characterize countries according to the quality of their institutions. However, no effort has been made to study how the honesty of citizens varies across countries. ...
    • openAccess   Exchange markets with endogenous quality: When the lemons problem enchances trade 

      Barreda-Tarrazona, Iván; García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Mitrokostas, Evangelos; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; Ziros, Nicholas (2016)
      A worrying feature of Akerlof’s (1970) model is that the existence of sufficiently many products of relatively low quality (“lemons”) in a market may not only drive those of high quality ...
    • openAccess   Physiological and behavioral patterns of corruption 

      Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; García-Gallego, Aurora; Perakakis, Pandelis; Georgantzis, Nikolaos Frontiers (2014)
      We study the behavior and emotional arousal of the participants in an experimental auction, leading to an asymmetric social dilemma involving an auctioneer and two bidders. An antisocial transfer (bribe) which is beneficial ...
    • openAccess   Psychopathy and Economic Behavior Among Prison Inmates: An Experiment 

      Balafoutas, Loukas; García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; Mitrokostas, Evangelos Frontiers Media (2021)
      This paper investigates whether there is a connection between psychopathy and certain manifestations of social and economic behavior, measured in a lab-in-thefield experiment with prison inmates. In order to test this ...
    • openAccess   Rehabilitation and social behavior: Experiments in prison 

      Balafoutas, Loukas; García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek; Mitrokostas, Evangelos Elsevier (2020-01)
      Despite the economic and social significance of crime reduction and criminals’ rehabilitation, research evaluating the effects of incarceration on behavior is surprisingly scarce. We conduct an experiment with 105 prison ...