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We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...
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the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory …
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networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …
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Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …
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In this paper, we describe a novel iterative procedure called SISTA to learn the underlying cost in optimal transport problems. SISTA is a hybrid between two classical methods, coordinate descent ("S"-inkhorn) and proximal gradient descent ("ISTA"). It alternates between a phase of exact...
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, but specialization requires communication and coordination between team members, and individuals with more social skills … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal (social welfare maximizing) tax-transfer rules. We consider the class of tax-transfer rules consisting of a universal basic income and a tax defined by a 4th degree polynomial....
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team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
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can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher …
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We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … lower extent of, asset holding diversification …
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