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Identification, signaling and exploitation of social preferences: An experimental analysis Vu, Thi Thanh Tam Vu, Thi Thanh Tam Ploner, Matteo Settore SECS-P/06 - Economia Applicata The Doctoral dissertation centers on social preferences. Three experimental studies address the identification methods and the implications of distributional preference types and pro-sociality on economic decision-making. In Chapter 1, the identification of social preference types using distributive choices is discussed. A thorough review shows that the two main approaches - parametric and non-parametric- have been productively used but produced inconsistent results in previous studies. The experiment in this Chapter is designed to examine the categorical agreement between the two methods: whether they classify the same subject into the same type. Chapter 2 presents a laboratory experiment investigating whether people strategically signal a certain type of social preferences. I consider four different distributional types and compare the distribution of these types under two settings: with and without strategic reasoning. In Chapter 3, I report an experimental study on the strategic exploitation of others' pro-sociality for own's benefit. This study is conducted within the principal-agent framework and aims to test whether employers make use of workers' pro-social motivation, offering a compensation scheme which is tailored to workers' pro-sociality. 2019 info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis https://hdl.handle.net/11572/367792 http://dx.doi.org/10.15168/11572_367792 10.15168/11572_367792 eng firstpage:1 lastpage:105 numberofpages:105 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Università degli studi di Trento place:TRENTO license:Tutti i diritti riservati (All rights reserved) license:Tutti i diritti riservati (All rights reserved)