Showing 571 - 580 of 161,283
We study ex post information rents in sequential screening models where the agent receives private ex ante and ex post information. The principal has to pay ex post information rents for preventing the agent to coordinate lies about his ex ante and ex post information. When the agent's ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340371
evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive … precise feedback on the co-worker's output, and also vary whether the two workers can communicate. We find that allowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282125
evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive … precise feedback on the co-worker's output, and also vary whether the two workers can communicate. We find that allowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540683
evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive … precise feedback on the co-worker's output, and also vary whether the two workers can communicate. We find that allowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279313
People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known …-takes-all competition based on similar skills. We show that individual differences in feedback responsiveness explain an important part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483816
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014634604
When two or more agents compete for a bonus and the agents' productivity in each of several possible occurrences depends stochastically on (constant) effort, the number of times that are checked to assign the bonus affects the level of un-certainty in the selection process. Uncertainty, in turn,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263840
We analyze a two-stage game between two heterogeneous players. At stage one, risk is chosen by one of the players. At stage two, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneously invest in a winner-take-all competition. The game is solved theoretically and then tested by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782297
Recent experimental results indicate that women do not like competitive environments as much as men do. Another literature is interested in the effect of social identity on economic behaviors. This paper investigates in the lab the impact of social identity on men and women’s willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183211
as men. This article presents an experimental design giving participants the opportunity to enter a tournament as part of … a team rather than alone. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in … line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. Women do not enter the tournament …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183213