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Alchian and Demsetz's (1972) classic paper models team production as a public good. They claim detection of individual effort levels, rather than aggregate effort levels, reduces shirking (free riding). This chapter experimentally tests this claim. Participants are informed either about the...
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experiment that examines allocations to a multiple provision point public good. Subjects determine the level of the good provided …
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Posted offer markets with costly buyer search are investigated in 18 laboratory sessions. Each period sellers simultaneously post prices. Then each buyer costlessly observes one or two of the posted prices and either accepts an observed price, drops out, or pays a cost to search again that...
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We use a laboratory experiment to examine a multitask environment common to practice, in which managers have multiple …
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In a field experiment in China, we informed randomly selected workers that others received a higher wage for the same …, increased their output without reducing quality. Although we did not communicate reasons for the pay difference, a post-experiment …
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Purpose Prior research identified conflicts in implementing performance measurement systems that include both financial and non-financial measures. Attempts to incorporate non-financial measures, for example, balanced scorecards (BSCs), have shown short-term success, only to be replaced with...
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This chapter analyzes a geographic quasi-experiment embedded in a cluster-randomized experiment in Honduras. In the … experiment, average treatment effects of conditional cash transfers on school enrollment and child labor were large – especially … selection criteria. In contrast, the geographic quasi-experiment yielded point estimates that, for two of three dependent …
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design an experiment to explore the superior’s choice between delegation and information elicitation. We also examine the …
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