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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne - 2016
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479746
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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459389
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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017
competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895040
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Feedback in Tournaments under Commitment Problems: The-ory and Experimental Evidence
Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - 2007
In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by … assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333966
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Feedback in Tournaments under Commitment Problems: The-ory and Experimental Evidence
Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by … assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785932
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Feedback in Tournaments under Commitment Problems: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by … assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822892
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Competition and fatigue at work
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018
We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976073
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Gender and psychological pressure in competitive environments
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2021
environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender … differences in performance in four distinct competitive situations. These were as follows: (i) the standard tournament game where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485925
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Optimal and fair prizing in sequential round-robin tournaments : experimental evidence
Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2022
We report results from the first experimental study of round-robin tournaments. In our experiment, we investigate how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167956
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Performance appraisals and the impact of forced distribution: An experimental investigation
Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269805