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Mechanism design and intentions
Bierbrauer, Felix; Netzer, Nick - 2016
information on reciprocity types, implementability of an incentive-compatible social choice function is guaranteed if it satises … an additional insurance property. By contrast, precise information on reciprocity types may imply that all ecient social … agents have private information about their material payo types and their reciprocity types. We also provide a systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444226
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Leading with(out) sacrifice? A public-goods experiment with a super-additive player
Glöckner, Andreas; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
We analyse two team settings in which one member in a team has stronger incentives to contribute than the others. If contributions constitute a sacrifice for the strong player, the other team members are more inclined to cooperate than if contributions are strictly dominant for the strong player.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266960
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Mechanism design and intentions
Bierbrauer, Felix; Netzer, Nick - 2016
information on reciprocity types, implementability of an incentive-compatible social choice function is guaranteed if it satises … an additional insurance property. By contrast, precise information on reciprocity types may imply that all ecient social … agents have private information about their material payo types and their reciprocity types. We also provide a systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522109
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Binary payment schemes: moral hazard and loss aversion
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel; Weinschenk, Philipp - 2010
We modify the principal-agent model with moral hazard by assuming that the agent is expectation-based loss averse according to Köszegi and Rabin (2006, 2007). The optimal contract is a binary payment scheme even for a rich performance measure, where standard preferences predict a fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662594
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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships: Experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract-enforcement device for work teams. Our findings suggest that the use of such self-assessments can be detrimental to workers´ performance. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331398
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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract-enforcement device for work teams. Our findings suggest that the use of such self-assessments can be detrimental to workers ́performance. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486358
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Cui bono, benefit corporation? An experiment inspired by social enterprise legislation in Germany and the US
Fischer, Sven; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Hamann, Hanjo - 2013
How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323843
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Goals (th)at work: Goals, monetary incentives, and workers' performance
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian - 2012
In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work performance. Employees are observed in a natural work environment where they have to do a simple, but effort-intense task. Output is perfectly observable and workers are paid for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323862
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Goals (th)at work : goals, monetary incentives, and workers' performance
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian - 2012
In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work performance. Employees are observed in a natural work environment where they have to do a simple, but effort-intense task. Output is perfectly observable and workers are paid for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627350
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Cui bono, benefit corporation? : an experiment inspired by social enterprise legislation in Germany and the US
Fischer, Sven Heiko; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Hamann, Hanjo - 2013 - This version: February 8, 2013
How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009706164