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side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in …
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We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...
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In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and...
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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …
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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary …
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Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis … has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first …
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Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an increase in discriminative policing, provided by...
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temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …
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