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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...

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On Punishment and Well-being

Brandts, Jordi; Rivas, María Fernanda - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

experiment to study the conjecture that an environment with stronger punishment possibilities leads to higher material but lower …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 …

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Frames and Games

Brandts, Jordi; Schwieren, Christiane - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

Decision-makers are sometimes influenced by the way in which choice situations are presented to them or "framed." This can be seen as an important challenge to the social sciences, since strong and pervasive framing effects would make it difficult to study human behavior in a synthetic or...

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Efficient and Stable Collective Choices under Crowding Preferences

Massó, Jordi; Nicolò, Antonio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

We consider a set of agents who have to choose one alternative among a finite set of social alternatives. A final allocation is a pair given by the selected alternative and the group of its users. Agents have crowding preferences over allocations: between any pair of allocations with the same...

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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

to standard pay-for-performance incentives. We report evidence from a large field experiment comparing the effectiveness …

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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...

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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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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...

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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

rivals gender and/or differences in relative ability. In a laboratory experiment, we use two tasks that differ regarding …

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Experimental Evidence on the Multibidding Mechanism

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Veszteg, Róbert F. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

Prez-Castrillo and Wettstein (2002) and Veszteg (2004) propose the use of a multibidding mechanism for situations where agents have to choose a common project. Examples are decisions involving public goods (or public "bads"). We report experimental results to test the practical tractability and...

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