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Transactions on online markets require a great deal of trust among anonymous trading partners. To mitigate some of the risks involved in anonymous transactions, several online market sites have implemented reputation management mechanisms that differ in structure and probably functionality. In a...
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eventually decrease when the tax rate exceeds a threshold value. We conduct a real effort experiment, in which a worker is … higher work opportunities tend to respond more emotionally to unfair taxation in our experiment, which is consistent with the …
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We examine decision making in a simple supplier-retailer wholesale price contract in the experimental economics laboratory. We observe wholesale prices and order quantities below the game-theoretical predictions. The supply chain's efficiency is as predicted but profits are more equitably...
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be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to …
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This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...
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This study examines the links between antecedents and consequences of Gabonese teachers' work motivation (N= 152). The theoretical underpinnings are based on the Motivational Model of Job Burnout (MMJB) and Self- Determination Theory (SDT) which states that the more supervisors will satisfy...
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This study adapts Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) model of stress and coping to describe individual decision processes … phase of the experiment, participants described two stressful decisions they were facing (i.e., a romantic decision and a … of the relationships among constructs. Overall, the findings show that theories of stress and coping add insight to …
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career plateau on various aspects of job stress. Results confirm most of Ettington's results: the feeling of being plateaued … has a different impact on satisfaction and stress when managers are objectively plateaued or when they are not. The study … aspects du stress au travail. Les résultats confirment pour une bonne part ceux d'Ettington : le sentiment de plafonnement des …
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The World Trade Center attack has shed light on the urgent need to implement preventing measures against terrorism and to enhance cooperation in the global security system for all countries. However, international coordination cannot be taken for granted. It is often ineffective and likely to...
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binary lottery procedure. The results reveal a partial crowding out of low risks in the first experiment. Crowding out is not … eliminated in the second experiment and it is not even significantly reduced. Finally, instead of the predicted separating …
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