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controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary … choices. -- organizational behavior ; incentives ; experiments and contracts …
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Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...
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an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
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Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in … organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of …
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reluctant to trigger arbitration. The inconsistent use of arbitration eliminates the incentives to take first-best actions and …
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In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo’s subgame perfect … mechanism should - in theory - provide incentives for truth-telling, many buyers in fact believe that they can increase their …
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We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
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This study measures the differences in ambiguity attitudes of groups and individuals in the gain and loss domain. We elicit the ambiguity attitudes and ambiguity-generated insensitivity for natural temperature events. We do not find significant differences between individuals and groups in our...
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investigate why social utility concerns may drive peer effects. We test for two main channels: utility from payoff differences and …
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efficiency gains by introducing incentives that reward information sharing, even where those incentives drive a wedge between …
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