Similar Search Results

Strategic Disclosure of Intermediate Research Results

Gill, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

We analyze the incentives to disclose intermediate research results. We find that despite the help that disclosure can … give to a rival, the leading innovator sometimes chooses to disclose. Disclosure signals commitment to the research project … sufficiently promising, while secrecy may be employed for very good results. As spillovers from disclosure increase, the leader …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047700

Transparency, Recruitment and Retention in the Public Sector

Leaver, Clare; Albano, Gian Luigi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper argues that government should pay greater heed to recruitment and retention when designing performance measurement systems for bureaucracies. In the face of pervasive rigidities in public sector pay, internal performance measurement rewards quitters and scars stayers and therefore...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047977

Money Burning and Stealing in the Laboratory: How Conflicting Ideologies Emerge

Zizzo, Daniel John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

Three experiments on utility interdependence are discussed. Subjects receive money by betting and possibly by arbitrary assignments. They can then pay to reduce and, possibly, redistribute the steal money; in one case, only the decisions of a randomly determined dictator are implemented. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605010

Two Criteria for Social Decisions

Fleurbaey, Marc - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

quite different. But it is shown here that these criteria are related to close variants of the fairness condition that an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605037

Outcomes versus intentions. On the nature of fair behavior and its development with age

Sutter, M. - The Field Experiments Website - 2007

Economic decisions depend on both actual outcomes as well as perceived intentions. In this paper, we examine whether and how the relative importance of outcomes or intentions for economic decisions develops with age. We report the results of ultimatum games with children, teens and university...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785095

Fairness in the Mail and Opportunism in the Internet - A Newspaper Experiment on Ultimatum Bargaining

Guth, Werner; Schmidt, Carsten; Sutter, Matthias - The Field Experiments Website - 2003

On 11 May 2001, readers of the Berliner Zeitung were invited to participate in an ultimatum bargaining experiment played in the strategy vector mode: each participant chooses not only how much (s)he demands of the DM1,000 pie but also which of the nine possible offers of DM100, 200,..., 900...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432513

Ultimatum Bargaining by Children and Adults

Murnighan, J. Keith; Saxon, M.S. - The Field Experiments Website - 1998

fairness. The discussion focuses on the development of bargaining strategies and concerns for fairness. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432515

In Search of Worker's Real Effort Reciprocity - A Field and a Laboratory Experiment

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Rockenbach, Bettina; Sadrieh, … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

We present a field experiment to assess the effect of own and peer wage variations on actual work effort of employees with hourly wages. Work effort neither reacts to an increase of the own wage, nor to a positive or negative peer comparison. This result seems at odds with numerous laboratory...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432523

Aging and the interaction between education, retirement and the working life

Omtzigt, Dirk-jan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

public pension systems. We discuss how a budget balancing mechanism can be informed by fairness considerations and we show …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047963

Empathic Responsiveness: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on Giving to Welfare Recipients

Fong, Christina - The Field Experiments Website - 2004

This paper reports a surprising finding from an experiment on giving to welfare recipients. The experiment tests how offers of money in n-donor dictator games are affected by 1) donors' humanitarian and egalitarian values and 2) direct information about the recipients' work-preferences. People...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685508