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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773922
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Il capitale sociale nelle regioni italiane: un’analisi comparata
Sabatini, Fabio - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 99 (2009) 2, pp. 167-220
Drawing on survey data, this study carries out an assessment of the Italian regions’ endowments of social capital and of its relationship with well-being and the quality of development. The contribution of the paper to the literature is threefold: first, we advance a framework for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575257
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Culture of Trust and Division of Labor
Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015
- specifically the trust environment - and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … endogenously leads to variation in organizational form. We prime trust using past performance from a pilot study and demonstrate … that the level of trust within an organization affects division of labor and consequently organizational productivity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531679
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Culture of Trust and Division of Labor
Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
– specifically the trust environment – and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … endogenously leads to variation in organizational form. We prime trust using past performance from a pilot study and demonstrate … that the level of trust within an organization affects division of labor and consequently organizational productivity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265299
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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - 2012
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 costs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283958
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Civility and Trust in Social Media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and … study how the effect of social media on trust varies depending on the civility or incivility of online interaction. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816562
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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - 2014
and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust and prisoner's dilemma games, we found that students in a neighborhood … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377339