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Political Autonomy and Independence: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007
We study the process by which subordinated regions of a country can obtain a more favourable political status. In our theoretical model a dominant and a dominated region first interact through a voting process that can lead to different degrees of autonomy. If this process fails then both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547366
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Observability and Overcoming Coordination Failure in Organizations. An Experimental Study
Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
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 … results: (1) The use of full feedback improves the ability of organizations to overcome coordination failure, (2) The use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547425
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It's What You Say Not What You Pay. An Experimental Study of Manager-Employee Relationship in Overcoming Coordination Failure.
Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005
managerial intervention subjects invariably slip into coordination failure. To overcome a history of coordination failure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547458
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A Change Would Do You Good... An Experimental Study on How to Overcome Coordination Failure in Organizations
Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
phase, the benefits of coordination are low relative to the cost of increased effort. Play in this initial phase typically … the benefits of coordination leads to improved coordination, but, surprisingly, large increases have no more impact than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547461
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Affirmative Action through Minority Reserves: An Experimental Study on School Choice
Klijn, Flip; Pais, Joana; Vorsatz, Marc - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
Minority reserves are an affirmative action policy proposed by Hafalir et al. (2013) in the context of school choice. We study in the laboratory the effect of minority reserves on the outcomes of two prominent matching mechanisms, the Gale-Shapley and the Top Trading Cycles mechanisms. Our first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950612
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Welfare of Naive and Sophisticated Players in School Choice
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel Angel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
Two main school choice mechanisms have attracted the attention in the literature: Boston and deferred acceptance (DA). The question arises on the ex-ante welfare implications when the game is played by participants that vary in terms of their strategic sophistication. Abdulkadiroglu, Che and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253107
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Stochastic Uncoupled Dynamics and Nash Equilibrium
Hart, Sergiu; Mas-Colell, Andreu - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
In this paper we consider dynamic processes, in repeated games, that are subject to the natural informational restriction of uncoupledness. We study the almost sure convergence to Nash equilibria, and present a number of possibility and impossibility results. Basically, we show that if in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547274
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Strategy-proof social choice
Barberà, Salvador - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
This paper surveys the literature on strategy-proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models. This article has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773120
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Endogenous Depth of Reasoning
Alaoui, Larbi; Penta, Antonio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
's predictions with an experiment. We administer different treatments that vary beliefs over payoffs and opponents, as well as … beliefs over opponents' beliefs. The results of this experiment, which are not accounted for by current models of reasoning in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851323
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851350