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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004
Holmström?s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision makers?...
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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution: An experimental investigation
Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269805
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Dishonesty under Scrutiny
van de Ven, Jeroen; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468157
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The Formation of Risk Preferences through Small-Scale Events
Angerer, Silvia; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2021
experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … line with a reinforcement learning model, we find that subjects who won a random lottery took significantly more risk in a … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658258
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Can Transparency of Information Reduce Embezzlement? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Di Falco, Salvatore; Magdalou, Brice; Masclet, David; … - 2016
Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and reducing the number of intermediaries in transfer chains can reduce embezzlement and improve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494297
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Quitting and peer effects at work
Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2012
evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282125
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Strategic ignorance in bargaining
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2011
than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282588
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Search, effort, and locus of control
McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - 2011
affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286269
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Aging and attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: An artefactual field experiment in a Swiss bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287655
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Dishonesty under Scrutiny
van de Ven, Jeroen; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078393