Is free-riding in teams reduced when one member receives a signal on his colleagueís performance? And how does free-riding depend on the signal's type? We address these questions in experimental teams in which two agents sequentially exert effort to contribute to the team output. We vary the...

We investigate how the transparency of selecting an agent affects the agent’s reciprocal behavior. In a modified gift-exchange game, agents either receive information about having (not) been selected or receive no such information at all, which allows to analyze reciprocity of agents who were...

We investigate how the transparency of selecting an agent for a task affects the agent's reciprocal behavior. In a laboratory experiment, we conduct a gift-exchange game with a random move representing the chance that a selected agent may not be available. We vary the transparency of the...