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The standard economic model of decision making assumes a decision maker makes her choices to maximize her utility or happiness. Her current emotional state is not explicitly considered. Yet there is a large psychological literature that shows that current emotional state, in particular positive...
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In most firms, if not all, workers are divided asymmetrically in terms of authority and Responsibility. In this paper, we view the asymmetric allocations of authority and responsibility as essential features of hierarchy and examine why hierarchies often prevail in organizations From that...
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The Experimental Games Generator (EGG) is a software package for developing and running round-based experimental games, created to support researchers in economics and other social sciences, who are interested in human decision making. It is completely web-based and open source. The very first...
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In most firms, if not all, workers are divided asymmetrically in terms of authority and responsibility. In this paper, we view the asymmetric allocations of authority and responsibility as essential features of hierarchy and examine why hierarchies often prevail in organizations from that...
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relationship is defined only by the allocation of responsibility via contingent contracts. Within this framework, we show that the …
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We develop a dynamic resource extraction game that mimics the global multi-generation planning problem for climate change and fossil fuel extraction. We implement the game under different conditions in the laboratory. Compared to a "libertarian" baseline condition, we find that policy...
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relationship is defined only by the allocation of responsibility via contingent contracts. Within this framework, we show that the …
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derive implications for legal policy, most theoretical papers, however, take public enforcement as exogenous, i.e. non-compliance … criminal behavior, self-disclosure, and policing. In this paper, we model corporate compliance as a three-person inspection … is more vulnerable to the reallocation of punishments by the agents through contracts or civil litigation. Moreover, we …
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hazard context. Incentive contracts that are optimal when there are only selfish actors become inferior when some agents are … concerned about fairness. Conversely, contracts that are doomed to fail when there are only selfish actors provide powerful … why many contracts are left deliberately incomplete. …
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