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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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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 scheme … 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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cooperation) and payoff structure on cooperative behaviour, using an experimental setting with incomplete information. A game of … cooperation (embedded in the payoff structure) tend to lower defection. Taken together, our results suggest that the subjects …
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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 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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With a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999), we study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition. Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when the market capacity is not too low or when earnings from...
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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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(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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the specificity of the labour process. Cooperation constitues the fundamental from of capitalist production, which entails …
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