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On the Relative Efficiency of Performance Pay and Social Incentives
Gneezy, Uri; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
In contrast to the simplifying assumption of selfishness, social incentives have been shown to play a role in economic interactions. Before incorporating social incentives into models and policies, however, one needs to know their efficiency relative to standard pay-for-performance incentives....
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The Role of Role Uncertainty in Modified Dictator Games
Iriberri, Nagore; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
We compare behavior in modified dictator games with and without role uncertainty. Subjects choose between a selfish action, a costly surplus creating action (altruistic behavior) and a costly surplus destroying action (spiteful behavior). While costly surplus creating actions are most frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851352
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(Bad) Luck or (Lack of) Effort?: Comparing Social Sharing Norms between US and Europe
Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sheremeta, Roman; Uler, Neslihan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
redistribution policies and their beliefs over the causes of poverty. By varying the information about the determinants of income, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547117
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Equilibrium Play and Best Response to (Stated) Beliefs in Normal Form Games
Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007
We report experimental results on a series of ten one-shot two-person 3x3 normal form games with unique equilibrium in pure strategies played by non-economists. In contrast to previous experiments in which game theory predictions fail dramatically, a majority of actions taken coincided with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547146
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Let's (Not) Talk about Sex: The Effect of Information Provision on Gender Differences in Performance under Competition
Iriberri, Nagore; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
We study how gender differences in performance under competition are affected by the provision of information regarding … reinforced when explicitly mentioning gender in tasks in which women already consider they are inferior. Omitting information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547208
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Experimental Evidence on the Multibidding Mechanism
Pérez-Castrillo, David; Veszteg, Róbert F. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005
experimental results to test the practical tractability and effectiveness of the multibidding mechanisms in environments where … agents hold private information concerning their valuation of the projects. The mechanism performed quite well in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547209
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Travelers' Types
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espinosa, Maréa Paz; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008
This paper uses subjects self-reported justifications to explain discrepancies between observed heterogeneous behavior and the unique equilibrium prediction in a one-shot travelers dilemma experiment (TD). Principal components (PC) analysis suggests that iterative reasoning, aspiration levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547217
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Elicited Beliefs and Social Information in Modified Dictator Games: What Do Dictators Believe Other Dictators Do?
Iriberri, Nagore; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
beliefs about other subjects actions in the same modified dictator games to test how much of the existent heterogeneity in … maximizers are closest to the actual distribution of others actions. We finally provide subjects with information on other … social information does not affect Selfish individuals, but that individuals with interdependent preferences are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547252
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The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real-Effort Tournament
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Franke, Jörg; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
Affirmative-action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who have a disadvantage they cannot be held responsible for. Critics argue that they distort incentives, resulting in lower individual performance, and that the selected pool of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547484
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The People’s Hired Guns? Experimentally Testing the Inclination of Prosecutors to Abuse the Vague Definition of Crimes
Engel, Christoph; Pluta, Alicja - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011
signalling game and test it experimentally. If we have participants play the naked game, at least a minority plays the game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226923