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Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment

Cadsby, C. Bram; Engle-Warnick, Jim; Fang, Tony; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2014

yield psychological benefits (pain). This may also stimulate effort. Through a real-effort artefactual field experiment with … factory workers in China, we examine how both psychological and financial incentives, together with attitudes toward risk, may … laboratory experiment. We provided performance-ranking information both privately and publicly, with and without rank based …

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American Idol: Should it be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest?

Amegashie, J. Atsu - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2007

Using the popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, this paper makes a contribution to the literatures on the design of contests, the allocation of voting rights in committees, and the desirability of low-powered incentive schemes. In American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in...

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Goodwill Can Hurt: a Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Return Policies in Auctions

Cadsby, C. Bram; Du, Ninghua; Wang, Ruqu; Zhang, Jun - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2015

consumer surplus through higher bids. In the experiment, bids increase and bidders? earnings decrease with more generous return …

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Honesty and Informal Agreements

Dufwenberg, Martin; Servátka, Maroš; Vadovic, Radovan - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2015

experiment, a temptations-constrained version of deal-me-out emerges as the clear winner. …

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Comment on "Promises and Partnership"

Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

their experiment is driven by guilt aversion. By modifying the procedures to include a double blind social distance protocol …

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Do People Keep Socially Unverifiable Promises?

Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

increases the overall level of cooperation in our double blind experiment. However, our results are due in part to the high …

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Symbols, Group Identity and the Hold-up Problem

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

members. We use a laboratory experiment to study the role of group identity, created by the use of symbols, in mitigating the …

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Group Size, Coordination, and the Effectiveness of the Punishment Mechanism in the VCM: An Experimental Investigation

Xu, Bin; Cadsby, Bram; Fan, Liangcong; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

In this study, we examine the effectiveness of the individual-punishment mechanism in larger groups, comparing groups of four to groups of 40 participants. We find that the individual punishment mechanism is remarkably robust when the MPCR is held constant despite the coordination problems...

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How Competitive are Female Professionals? A Tale of Identity Conflict

Cadsby, C. Bram; Servatka, Maros; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

We develop and test experimentally the argument that gender/family and/or professional identities, activated through psychological priming, may influence preference for competition. We focus on female professionals for whom these identities may conflict and male professionals for whom they may...

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Investment in Outside Options as Opportunistic Behavior: An Experimental Investigation

Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2014

between other-regarding behavior and opportunism. In our experiment the seller can become worse off by investing, suggesting …

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