Economic Behavior and Personality Traits
This thesis comprises three chapters focusing on economic behavior and personality traits. In the first chapter, I investigate experimentally how subjects choose their partners and how they play depending on their personality characteristics. In particular, I study the role of narcissism within the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/691970 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/691970 |
| Access Level: | acceso embargado |
| Palabra clave: | Economic behavior Personality traits Comportament econòmic Trets de personalitat 33 |
| Sumario: | This thesis comprises three chapters focusing on economic behavior and personality traits. In the first chapter, I investigate experimentally how subjects choose their partners and how they play depending on their personality characteristics. In particular, I study the role of narcissism within the context of games of collaboration, fairness, and competition. I find that no matter how narcissistic participants are, they tend to prefer to be matched with less narcissistic individuals in all games. Participants’ level of narcissism significantly predicts behavior in all contexts. The higher their level of narcissism, the less they contribute in a public goods game, the smaller the offer in an ultimatum game, and the poorer the performance in competition is. In the context of collaboration, participants adjust their behavior based on the characteristics of their partner; the more narcissistic the partner, the less they contribute. Subjects do not adapt their behavior in the context of competition and fairness. This paper sheds light on the under-investigated topic of matching and economic behavior of individuals across different levels of narcissism. In chapter 2, I investigate whether individuals of different narcissism levels and the same ability differ in their selection into a competitive environment. I find that there are no narcissism differences in performance ex ante. Among the participants who choose to enter a competition in the effort task, the probability of succeeding is higher for individuals high in narcissism because they self-select better. This difference is explained by the fact that low-skilled individuals high in narcissism choose not to enter the competition since this could be an ego-threatening situation. I do not find this difference in the luck task, where the ego threat is no longer active, and high- and low-skilled narcissistic participants do not differ in their selection. Finally, in the third chapter, I investigate the impact of the Big Five personality traits on partner selection and performance. |
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