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controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …
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The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
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tournament. In this dynamic setting we test (i) whether giving continuous feedback (vs. final ex post feedback) on the opponent …
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This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...
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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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Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking … drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's self image, is thought to be the key to whether incentives work or not …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …
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This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...
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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
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Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring...
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