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Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded … ? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation … the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap : (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …
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We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and …. The application of sanctions activates a "virtuous emotional circle" that accompanies cooperation. Emotionally aroused … punished, and increase their subsequent level of cooperation. The outcome is an increased level of contribution that becomes …
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which … paper reports the results of an experiment investigating inequality aversion and negative emotions as possible determinants …
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(cooperation) solutions, in a model of investment timing allowing for externalities in both flow pro…ts and investment costs. For …. Optimal cooperation involves either monopoly or duopoly investment, the latter being either symmetric or asymmetric. Finally …&D input choices, if investment synergies are large, coordination and cooperation result in the same outcomes. …
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There is economic pressure towards the postponement of the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ older workers. We investigate the comparative behavior of juniors and seniors in experiments conducted both onsite with the employees of two large firms and in a conventional...
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&D cooperation is positive and statistically significant only when they are above a threshold. Both the value, and the precision of …
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We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
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We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...
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An important branch of economic research on emotions has used power-to-take game experiments to study the impact of negative emotions, such as anger, irritation and contempt, on the decision to punish. We investigate experimentally the role that the specific punishment technology adopted plays...
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