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Rational Inattention in Games : Experimental Evidence

Martin, Daniel - 2016

In this paper, I test the predictions of rational inattention theory using a laboratory experiment where one role in a …

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Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …

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Lies and biased evaluation: A real-effort experiment

Rosaz, Julie; Villeval, Marie Claire - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 2, pp. 537-549

quality. In our experiment workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers’ performance to the …

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Optimal degree of remote work

Bertram, Justus; Ruhnke, Carsten S.; Schöndube, Jens Robert - 2024

As a new work style remote work has become an increasingly important factor for firms and their employees. Employees potentially benefit from a higher flexibility when working remotely. Firms can make use of this non-financial benefit to increase their attractiveness on the job market and to...

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Overconfidence and information aggregation

Zaccaria, Niccolò - 2025

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Competition in the workplace : an experimental investigation

Benndorf, Volker; Rau, Holger A. - 2012

We analyze competition between workers in a gift-exchange experiment where two workers are hired by the same employer … implicitly set "tournament incentives" by rewarding employees who choose higher effort levels than their co-workers. Here …

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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness : gender-task stereotypes

Große, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - 2010

able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment …-sex groups given different incentive schemes. Furthermore, we report the results of a framed field experiment, where we explore a … our interpretation. -- Competition, piece rate ; revenue sharing ; gender-task stereotype ; experiment …

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Coordination under loss contracts

Ahrens, Steffen; Bitter, Lea; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril - 2020

In this paper we study the effects that loss contracts - prepayments that can be clawbacked later - have on group coordination when there is strategic uncertainty. We compare the choices made by experimental subjects in a minimum effort game. In control sessions, incentives are formulated as a...

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Social comparisons in wage delegation : experimental evidence

Charness, Gary; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Lacomba, Juan A.; … - 2013

This article examines whether social comparisons have behavioral effects on workers' performance when a firm can choose workers' wages or let them choose their own. Firms can delegate the wage decision to neither, one or both workers in the firm. We vary the information workers receive, finding...

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Trust and reputation under asymmetric information

Janas, Moritz; Oljemark, Emilia - 2020 - Version: September 10, 2020

knowledge. We test this result in a laboratory experiment. The data cannot confirm the predicted welfare dominance of private …

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