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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence

Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011

be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to …

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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013

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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Global Security Policies Against Terrorism and the Free Riding Problem: An Experimental Approach

Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David; Mirza, Daniel; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

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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Competitive Insurance Markets and Adverse Selection in the Lab

Riahi, Dorra; Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

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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Private Valuation of a Public Good in Three Auction Mechanisms / Evaluation privée d'un bien public dans trois mécanismes d'enchères

Dragicevic, Arnaud; Ettinger, David - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

, and the random nth-price auction in the measurement of private willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept for a pure …

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Willingness to Pay to Reduce Future Risk

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Héroux, Julie; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2009

We elicit subjects' willingness to pay to reduce future risk. In our experiments, subjects are given a cash endowment and a risky lottery. They report their willingness to pay to exchange the risky lottery for a safe one. Subjects play the lottery either immediately, eight weeks later, or...

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Learning-by-Doing in an Ambiguous Environment

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Laszlo, Sonia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

We experimentally test whether risk aversion or ambiguity aversion can explain decisions in a learning-by-doing game. We first measure subjects' preferences toward risk and ambiguity, and then use these measures to predict behavior in the game. We find that ambiguity averse subjects pay more...

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Training Without Certification: An Experimental Study

Marchand, Nadège; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2008

Our study considers the question of training in firms using an experimental laboratory approach. We investigate the following questions : What conditions, excluding external certification, will bring workers and employers to cooperate and share a rent generated by the workers' training? What...

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Can Corruption Be Studied in the Lab? Comparing a Field and a Lab Experiment

Armantier, Olivier; Boly, Amadou - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2008

developed country, to where it matters the most, the field in a developing country. In our experiment a candidate proposes a …

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Aspiration Levels and Educational Choices<br>An experimental study

Page, Lionel; Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

experiment in which they had to perform a task over fifteen stages grouped in three blocks or levels. In order to continue … through the experiment, a minimum level of success was required at the end of each level. Rewards were dependent on the final …, participants in the loss framing group choose to go further in the experiment. There was also a significant and interesting gender …

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