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Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments
Graff, Frederik; Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2018
tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the reflection problem, which usually undermines research on dynamic interaction … output. We observe that the subjects' performance is highest in a homogeneous tournament, i.e., when they compete against an … peer effects rather than by tournament incentives. We extensively track the behavior of subjects and the particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984479
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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2008
-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … effects in the piece-rate pay scheme. In contrast, in the tournament scheme we find some evidence of positive peer effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056862
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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … effects in the piece-rate pay scheme. In contrast, in the tournament scheme we find some evidence of positive peer effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703358
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Competing on the holodeck : the effect of virtual peers and heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments
Graff, Jan Frederik; Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2018
tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the reflection problem, which usually undermines research on dynamic interaction … output. We observe that the subjects' performance is highest in a homogeneous tournament, i.e., when they compete against an … peer effects rather than by tournament incentives. We extensively track the behavior of subjects and the particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946765
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Feedback and incentives: experimental evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2008
-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … effects in the piece-rate pay scheme. In contrast, in the tournament scheme we find some evidence of positive peer effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268675
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The Heat Is On
Hill, Brian - In: Journal of Sports Economics 15 (2014) 4, pp. 315-337
Qualification in track and field events involves runners competing against individuals within their heat and runners in other heats. Given that the heats are run sequentially, runners in each heat have different information about their competitors. Using data on track and field events from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011139148
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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2008
-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … effects in the piece-rate pay scheme. In contrast, in the tournament scheme we find some evidence of positive peer effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791004
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The heat is on : tournament structure, peer effects, and performance
Hill, Brian C. - In: Journal of sports economics 15 (2014) 4, pp. 315-337
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405155
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To join or not to join? Factors influencing employee share plan membership in a multinational corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidizethe price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a newsurvey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerablevariation in joining among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745984
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To Join or Not to Join? Factors Influencing Employee Share Plan Membership in a Multinational Corporation
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidize the price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a new survey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerable variation in joining among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694942