gauge the contribution of Managed Care to the performance of three health care systems, viz. Germany, the Netherlands and … the United States. The maximum contribution of Managed Care to the performance of the health care system is found for the … participate in the programs contributed to poor performance. …

performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …

performance worsens. Moreover, the larger the income differences, the stronger positional concern effects are observable. We also …

provides an empirical analysis on how individuals’ relative income position affects their performance. Using a unique data set … income differences within a team, the worse the performance of the soccer players is. The more the players are integrated in …

received the same performance‐independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members’ wages caused a substantial decrease in … performance. When only one team member’s wage was cut, the performance decrease for the workers who received the cut was more than … twice as large as the individual performance decrease when both workers’ wages were cut. This finding indicates that social …

, inducing them to resist entering into employment contracts. This resistance to employment contracts vanishes if fairness …

-applicable model of path-dependent fairness preferences, in which past experiences shape preferences, and we experimentally test the …' fairness concerns, making them more likely to accept low offers. Consistent with our theory, we also find that past experience …