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We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...
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This paper studies optimal task assignments in a setting where agents are expectation-based loss averse according to KoszegiRabin (2006) and KoszegiRabin (2007) and are compensated according to an aggregated performance measure in which tasks are technologically independent. We show that the...
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, a good of too high quality or too low quality is traded ex post. Based on the buyer's expectation management, our theory …
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This paper is concerned with the situation in which a profit-maximizing monopolist faces consumers that are diverse not only in their preferences but also in their levels of bounded rationality. The behavioral phenomenon considered here is the attraction effects when choices are made across...
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(2008)'s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships … suggest refinements of the theory. In particular, we find that the availability of informal agreements and ex post …
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We propose a theory of ex post inefficient renegotiation that is based on loss aversion. When two parties write a long … renegotiated outcome sticky and materially inefficient. The theory has important implications for the optimal design of long …
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We propose a theory of ex post inefficient renegotiation that is based on loss aversion. When two parties write a long … renegotiated outcome sticky and materially inefficient. The theory has important implications for the optimal design of long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658107
We propose a theory of ex post inefficient renegotiation that is based on loss aversion. When two parties write a long … renegotiated outcome sticky and materially inefficient. The theory has important implications for the optimal design of long … ; incomplete contracts ; reference points ; employment contracts ; behavioral contract theory …
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, a good of too high quality or too low quality is traded ex post. Based on the buyer's expectation management, our theory …
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(2008)'s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships … suggest refinements of the theory. In particular, we find that the availability of informal agreements and ex post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517867