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Cooperation and Authoritarian Norms: An experimental study in China
Vollan, Björn; Zhou, Yexin; Landmann, Andreas; Hu, Biliang - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
There is ample evidence for a “democracy premium”. Laws that have been implemented via election lead to a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895183
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Tax Salience, Voting, and Deliberation
Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2008
Tax incentives can be more or less salient, i.e. noticeable or cognitively easy to process. Our hypothesis is that taxes on consumers are more salient to consumers than equivalent taxes on sellers because consumers underestimate the extent of tax shifting in the market. We show that tax salience...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009394338
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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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Role selection and team performance
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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Testing a forgotten aspect of Akerlof’s gift exchange hypothesis: Relational contracts with individual and uniform wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...
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Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams in experimental normal-form games
Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …
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Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination ? Large-Scale Experimental Evidence
Feri, Francesco; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2008
coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either …The need for efficient coordination is ubiquitous in organizations and industries. The literature on the determinants … of efficient coordination has focused on individual decision-making so far. In reality, however, teams often have to …
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