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previous research, we have shown that financial incentives can be used to find a way out of such performance traps. Here we … either start with low financial incentives for coordination, which typically leads to coordination failure, and then are … switched to higher incentives or start with high incentives, which typically yield effective coordination, and are switched to …
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, managers have two instruments at their disposal, increasing employees' financial incentives to coordinate and communication …
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patterns of behavior. Using controlled laboratory experiments, we study how financial incentives can be used to find a way out … explores the effects of varying the financial incentives to coordinate at a higher effort level. We find that an increase in … small increases. Once subjects have coordinated on a higher effort level, reductions in the financial incentives to …
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We study how personal relations affect performance in organizations. In the experimental game we use a manager has to assign different degrees of decision power to two employees. These two employees then have to make distributive decisions which affect themselves and the manager. Our focus is on...
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We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how, after a history of decay, cooperation in a repeated voluntary contribution game can be revived in an enduring way. Simply starting the repeated game over - a simple fresh start - leads to an initial increase of cooperation, but to a subsequent new...
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model delivers testable implications on players' chosen actions as incentives and opponents change. We then test the model …
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The existence of punishment opportunities has been shown to cause efficiency in public goods experiments to increase considerably. In this paper we ask whether punishment also has a downside in terms of process dissatisfaction. We conduct an experiment to study the conjecture that an environment...
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leaders has a greater effect than incentives. Moreover, leaders who are elected by followers are significantly better at …
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Major bubble episodes are rare events. In this paper, we examine what factors might cause some asset price bubbles to become very large. We recreate, in a laboratory setting, some of the specific institutional features investors in the South Sea Company faced in 1720. Several factors have been...
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We present a lab-field experiment designed to assess systematically the external validity of social preferences elicited in a variety of experimental games. We do this by comparing behavior in the different games with a number of behaviors elicited in the field and with self-reported behaviors...
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