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that the firm`s shareholders agree on the same set of beliefs. Therefore we introduce some communication network into the … that competitive equilibria with communication of shareholders and a relevant financial policy of the firm are Pareto …
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In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...
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It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellectual tasks. We report that in a company takeover experiment, groups placed better bids than individuals and substantially reduced the winner’s curse. This improvement was mostly due to peer pressure over the...
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equally in groups of optimal size and there is no communication. In this paper we investigate the impact of introducing … communication groups that may or may not be linked to output sharing groups. Communication reduces shirking, increases aggregate … effort and reduces aggregate rents, but only when communication groups and output-sharing groups are linked. The effect is …
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