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; experiment …
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threat of terminating them from the team (Alchian and Demsetz, 1972). We extend a standard weakest link experiment with a …
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We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...
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of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament in which equilibrium efforts are the same in both stages. We …
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We investigate experimentally ingratiatory behavior expressed by opinion conformity. Both individuals’ performance at a task and their opinions on various topics can be observed before unequal payoffs are assigned by a second mover. In some treatments, first movers can change their opinion...
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inefficient risk-sharing. These experimental outcomes, while anomalous from the standpoint of principal-agency theory, are quite … may allow an outcome preferred, by both principal and agent, to that deemed possible by principal-agency theory. If this … is true, then the lessons to be learned from principal-agency theory are all the wrong ones. Concentrating on incentives …
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In this paper, I test the effects of religious norms on the provision of public goods. My evidence is drawn from public goods experiments that I ran with regional bureaucrats in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. I introduce three treatments, which I define as degrees of Eastern Orthodox...
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We explore the effectiveness of an anti-corruption mechanism that combines the top-down institutions and the bottom-up monitoring from the masses. Based on a repeated stranger matching harassment bribe game, we introduce the interventions of the group monitoring and the endogenous crackdown....
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Using the results of a large-scale (N=900) online experiment, this paper investigates how the information about a group …
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