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punishment, so that they increase overall welfare ? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …
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influence participation and effort. We contrast three incentive schemes in a real-effort experiment in which individuals decide …
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in economics. In an experiment we investigate whether such behavior can be influenced by the very nature of an …
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We present results of a household-level survey on behaviors regarding refuses in the home waste-waters network. Interpreting survey results in a panel-data logit results show that most socio-economic and public good-related respondent’s characteristics do not play a significant role in...
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We consider corruption behavior in a three-players game : Principal, Agent, Corrupter. When the Principal chooses a fair wage, the Agent faces con°icting interests to reciprocate. This delegation effect is expected to lower the level of corruption as compared to what arises in two-players...
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We model the interaction between an employer and a worker with interdependent preferences in a simple one-shot production process. In particular, we assume that the worker becomes kinder if she senses that her employer is an altruist. We assume that intentions are private information. Thus, the...
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Unethical behavior within organizations is not rare. We investigate experimentally the role of status-seeking behavior in sabotage and cheating activities aiming at improving one’s performance ranking in a flat-wage environment. We find that average effort is higher when individuals are...
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in the experiment, making strategic complementarities and overreaction an issue of second order. …
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been withdrawn. Inconsistency in experiencing audits across time clearly increases the difficulty of learning the true …
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learning that held by the manager. In the Random treatment, workers can also change opinion but payoffs are assigned randomly …
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