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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012 - This version: 26th January 2012
Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, given its illegal and often immoral nature, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to...
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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571167
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Incentives for dishonesty : an experimental study with internal auditors
Balafoutas, Loukas; Czermak, Simon; Eulerich, Marc; … - 2017 - This version: 20 April 2017
This study examines experimentally how dishonest behavior in the form of misreporting others' performance depends on the nature of provided incentives. We conduct a 'lab in the field' experiment with internal auditors during two large conferences in Germany and evaluate their performance and...
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Incentives to lose revisited : the NHL and its tournament incentives
Fornwagner, Helena - 2017
This paper analyzes data from a tournament, namely the National Hockey League regular scheduled season of games, which provides incentives to increase effort in order to reach the playoffs and incentives to decrease effort once a team has been eliminated from playoff considerations because of...
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Financial literacy, risk and time preferences : results from a randomized educational intervention
Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2020 - This version: 1 August 2020
We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...
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The effect of priming on fraud: Evidence from a natural field experiment
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Pearce, Graeme - 2020
We present a natural field experiment designed to examine the extent to which priming can influence the behaviour of sellers in a real world market for credence goods. We employed 40 testers to take 600 taxi journeys in and around Vienna, Austria. Using a between-subject design we vary the...
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021
and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment - emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … prevalent at a very young age. However, direct and indirect reciprocity treatments do not increase overall cooperation rates, as …
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Norm enforcement in the city : a natural field experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2012
Extensive evidence from laboratory experiments indicates that many individuals are willing to use costly punishment to enforce social norms, even in one-shot interactions. However, there appears to be little evidence in the literature of such behavior in the field. We study the propensity to...
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Norm enforcement in the city : a natural field experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571170