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Let's Talk: How Communication Affects Contract Design
Brandts, Jordi; Charness, Gary; Ellman, Matthew - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
shock and a discretionary buyer transfer. In the absence of communication, we find that rigid contracts are more frequent … and lead to higher earnings for both buyer and seller. By contrast, in the presence of communication, flexible contracts … considerably more from flexible with communication than rigid without communication. Our results show quite strongly that …
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Organisational structure, communication and group ethics
Ellman, Matthew; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007
consensus. Our 2-by-2 design also controls for communication effects. In our data, communication makes vertical firms more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547180
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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
We compare the determinants of individual giving between two countries, Spain and the US, which differ in their redistribution policies and their beliefs over the causes of poverty. By varying the information about the determinants of income, we find that, although overall giving is similar in...
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Measuring Risk Aversion with Lists: A New Bias
Bosch-Domènech, Antoni; Silvestre, Joaquim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Various experimental procedures aimed at measuring individual risk aversion involve a list of pairs of alternative prospects. We first study the widely used method by Holt and Laury (2002), for which we find that the removal of some items from the lists yields a systematic decrease in risk...
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Rules or Consequences? The Role of Ethical Mindsets in Moral Dynamics
Cornelissen, Gert; Bashshur, Michael R.; Rode, Julian; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Recent research on the dynamics of moral behavior has documented two contrasting phenomena - moral consistency and moral balancing. Moral balancing refers to the phenomenon whereby behaving (un)ethically decreases the likelihood of doing so again at a later time. Moral consistency describes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711779
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Promoting Rule Compliance in Daily-Life: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in the Public Libraries of Barcelona
Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
We study how to promote compliance with rules in every day situations. Having access to unique data on the universe of users of all public libraries in Barcelona, we test the effect of sending email messages with different contents. We find that users return their items earlier if asked to do...
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Are Self-regarding Subjects More Rational?
Arruñada, Benito; Casari, Marco; Pancotto, Francesca - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Through an experiment, we investigate how the level of rationality relates to concerns for equality and efficiency. Subjects perform dictator games and a guessing game. More rational subjects are not more frequently of the self-regarding type. When performing a comparison within the same degree...
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How Universal is Behavior? A Four Country Comparison of Spite and Cooperation in Voluntary Contribution Mechanisms
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...
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The Donor Problem
Abbink, Klaus; Ellman, Matthew - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005
Donors often rely on local intermediaries to deliver benefits to target beneficiaries. Each selected recipient observes if the intermediary under-delivers to them, so they serve as natural monitors. However, they may withhold complaints when feeling unentitled or grateful to the intermediary for...
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Median Stable Matching for College Admission
Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
admissions problems. Furthermore, we discuss the fairness properties of median stable matchings and conclude with two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851408