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This paper uses experimental data to analyze how competitive behavior is influenced by coaching and peer observation. We study behavior in a sequential contest, considering information about the effort level of subjects in other contests (observation of peers) and information about the...
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We analyze a task-assignment model in which a principal assigns a task to one of two agents depending on future states. If the agents have concave utility, the principal assigns the task to them contingent on the state. We show that if the agents are loss averse, a state-independent...
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to the target of trust. We conduct an experiment in which we vary the target of trust among passersby at several …
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We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game...
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Affirmative action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who … which might induce lower performance by participants, and additionally result in a selected pool of tournament winners that …, affirmative action resulted in a more equitable tournament winner pool where half of the selected tournament winners came from the …
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We apply the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013) to a two-player tournament incentive scheme …
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werden die resultierenden Hypothesen in einem ökonomischen Experiment mit realen Anstrengungen getestet. Bei variierenden … when agents are loss averse. Secondly, we test the resulting hypotheses in an economic real effort experiment. Varying the …
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We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent's output, we find that males and … opponent is revealed before the tournament, males increase their performance in the real-effort task especially if the opponent …
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-interest or envy, of one bargaining party as private information in a three period game of bargaining and preference screening and …
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