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Is Transparency an Anti-Corruption Myth?

Murray, Cameron - 2017

We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by implementing player identification via photographs. In our experimental design players have an incentive to form bilateral alliances in which they favour their partner at the expense of...

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Tournaments and Office Politics:Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Schirm, John - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhapswhen workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability andoutput in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect oftournaments is thin...

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Negotiating Cooperation Under Uncertainty : Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions

Dvorak, Fabian - 2018

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 and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

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Lying and Team Incentives

Conrads, Julian - 2011

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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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships : Experimental Evidence

Kleine, Marco - 2015

We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …

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Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions

Fehr, Dietmar - 2016

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...

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The Organizational Economics of School Chains

Neri, Lorenzo; Pasini, Elisabetta; Silva, Olmo - 2022

Although school autonomy is often advocated as a way to improve student achievement, many countries are experiencing a counterbalancing trend: the emergence of chains that bind schools together into structures with varying degrees of centralization. Despite their prominence, no evidence exists...

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Construction Contracts (or : How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?)

Chakravarty, Surajeet; MacLeod, William Bentley - 2014

Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...

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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications

Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022

Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...

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