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A Gift is not Always a Gift: Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment

Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2011

Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...

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Reciprocity, World Prices and Welfare

Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Woodland, Alan D. - CESifo - 2011

We examine in detail the circumstances under which reciprocity, as defined in Bagwell and Staiger (1999), leads to … fixed world prices. We show that a change of tariffs satisfying reciprocity does not necessarily imply constant world prices … reciprocity and constant world prices, these reforms do not follow from the reciprocity condition, but rather from the requirement …

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Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers

Non, Arjan - CESifo - 2011

By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between …

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Reciprocity in Organisations - Evidence from the WERS

Englmaier, Florian; Kolaska, Thomas; Leider, Stephen G. - CESifo - 2015

about personality traits of employees, in particular whether these employees are inclined towards reciprocity. Using the …

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Observable Strategies, Commitments, and Contracts

Wärneryd, Karl - CESifo - 2014

We consider rules (strategies, commitments, contracts, or computer programs) that make behavior contingent on an opponent’s rule. The set of perfectly observable rules is not well defined. Previous contributions avoid this problem by restricting the rules deemed admissible. We instead limit...

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Intentions Undercover - Hiding Intentions is Considered Unfair

Friehe, Tim; Utikal, Verena - CESifo - 2015

Unfair intentions provoke negative reciprocity from others, making their concealment potentially beneficial. This paper …

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Managerial Payoff and Gift Exchange in the Field

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen G. - CESifo - 2012

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker’s effort on the manager’s payoff. The results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage gift and the agent’s ability to “repay the gift”. We collect...

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When will there be Gift Exchange? Addressing the Lab-Field Debate with Laboratory Gift Exchange Experiments

Kessler, Judd - CESifo - 2013

Gift exchange experiments have demonstrated that norms can affect labor market outcomes and provided an explanation for involuntary unemployment. However, conflicting results from laboratory and field experiments have questioned the relevance of gift exchange and helped spark an ongoing debate...

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Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...

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You Owe Me

Malmendier, Ulrike M.; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2012

In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...

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