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Competitive versus cooperative incentives in team production with heterogeneous agents

Dutcher, Glenn E.; Oexl, Regine; Ryvkin, Dmitry; Salmon, Tim - 2021 - This version: September 11, 2021

A debate among practicing managers is whether to use cooperative or competitive incentives for team production. While competitive incentives may drive individual effort higher, they may also lead to less help and more sabotage; an issue exacerbated when team members' abilities are varied. Using a...

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Do groups fight more? : experimental evidence on conflict initiation

Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Seelos, Sophia - 2023

This paper investigates whether distributional conflicts become more likely when groups are involved in the fight. We present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains...

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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...

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Inequality and the business cycle : evidence from U.S. survey data

Geiger, Martin; Mayer, Eric; Scharler, Johann - 2019

We study the effects of macroeconomic shocks on several measures of economic inequality obtained from U.S. survey data … macroeconomic shocks on economic inequality depend on the type of shock as well as on the measure of inequality considered …. Contractionary monetary policy shocks increase expenditure and consumption inequality, whereas income and earnings inequality are …

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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013 - This version: 24 June 2013

that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the … benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is similar across decision makers. A consequence for the frequency of … preference types is that while a substantial fraction of individuals is classified as inequality averse, this type disappears …

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010 - This version: 09/16/2010

We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010

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Why did he do that? : using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games

Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016

We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...

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Social mobility perceptions and inequality acceptance

Fehr, Dietmar; Müller, Daniel; Preuß, Marcel - 2020

This paper examines how perceptions of social mobility affect acceptance of inequality. We conduct a randomized …

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Optimal contracts based on subjective evaluations and reciprocity

Sebald, Alexander; Walzl, Markus - 2012

As we have demonstrated in a recent laboratory experiment [see Sebald and Walzl (2012)], individuals tend to sanction others who subjectively evaluate their performance whenever this assessment falls short of the individual's self-evaluation even if their earnings are unaffected by the...

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