Dessi, Roberta; Miquel-Florensa, Josepa - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2013
We study the role of status in an experimental Principal-Agent game.Status is awarded to subjects based on either talent or luck. In each randomly matched principal-agent pair, the principal chooses the agent's status-contingent piece rate for a task in which talent matters for performance (an...