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Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...

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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments ? An experimental study

Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2007

reducing efforts. In our experiment we control the channels of communication by letting subjects communicate through an …We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts …

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The Impact of Beliefs on Effort in Telecommuting Teams

Dutcher, E. Glenn; Saral, Krista Jabs - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012

controlled experiment, where individuals work in teams with varying numbers of telecommuters, we test how telecommuting affects …

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The Determinants of Managerial Decisions Under Risk

Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für …

experimentally why, and under which conditions, leaders resort to such decisions. In our experiment, teams are presented with several …

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Mediocrity and induced reciprocity

Montinari, Natalia; Nicolo, Antonio; Oexl, Regine - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012

We report evidence from an experiment where a principal chooses an agent out of two to perform a task for a fixed …

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Inequality Aversion and Voting on Redistribution

Hoechtl, Wolfgang; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011

Mounting evidence shows that there is heterogeneity in aversion to inequality, i.e. that some people have a concern for a fair distribution. Does such a concern matter for majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair voters are...

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Truth, trust, and sanctions: On institutional selection in sender-receiver games

Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011

We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the impact of institutions and institutional choice on truth …

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How does the social distance between an employee and a manager affect employee competition for a reward?

Dutcher, Glenn - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011

This study examines how employees internalize differences in social distance between themselves and their managers when they are competing for a reward given by the manager. In an employer/employee relationship, this difference in social distance between the employer and the various employees...

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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...

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Fairness and Efficiency in a Subjective Claims Problem

Gantner, Anita; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013

In a subjective claims problem several agents have contributed to the production of a cake which is to be divided among them. Since contributions are difficult to compare and the production function is nonlinear, agents'subjective evaluations of claims are likely to be conflicting. In a...

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