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Error cascades in observational learning : an experiment on the Chinos game
Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; Ponti, … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653517
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Error cascades in observational learning : an experiment on the Chinos game
Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; Ponti, … - 2008
The paper reports an experimental study based on a variant of the popular Chinos game, which is used as a simple but paradigmatic instance of observational learning. There are three players, arranged in sequence, each of whom wins a fixed price if she manages to guess the total number of coins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733223
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No response to changes in marginal incentives in one-shot public good experiments
Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023
group earnings. Based on a total sample size of 952 participants, we find that, unlike results from previous experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014299587
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Gossip and the efficiency of interactions
Fehr, Dietmar; Sutter, Matthias - 2016
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420430
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Role selection and team performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544507
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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments : an experimental study
Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007 - This version: 26 June 2007
We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts … by mitigating the internal free-rider problem. Communication between competing teams may lead to collusion, thereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731147
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Role selection and team performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011 - This version: 26 July 2011
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are … ; communication ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737526
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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments : an experimental study
Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003568125
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Too big to prevail : the paradox of power in coalition formation
Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Newell, Anthony; Page, Lionel - 2021
In standard coalition games, players try to form a coalition to secure a prize and a coalition agreement specifies how the prize is to be split among its members. However, in practical situations where coalitions are formed, the actual split of the prize often takes place after the coalition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550309
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Which income comparisons matter to people, and how? : evidence from a large field experiment
Xu, Xiaogeng; Metsälampi, Satu; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2023
Received wisdom holds that income rank matters for life satisfaction. In much of the literature, however, income comparisons are limited to the national population and evidence is correlational. In this paper, we investigate differences in the causal effects of rank information across reference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280068