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Lying and Team Incentives
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...
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Turning the Lab into Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. The Effect of Punishment on Offenders and Non-Offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment …
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Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence
Feri, Francesco; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either …
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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …
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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …
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On Probation. An Experimental Analysis
Engel, Christoph; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2009
. We therefore complement the field evidence by a lab experiment that isolates the definitional feature of probation: the …
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Disclosure, Trust and Persuasion in Insurance Markets
de Meza, David; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Reyniers, Diane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy …
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Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination – Large-Scale Experimental Evidence
Feri, Francesco; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2009
coordinate with other teams. We present a series of coordination experiments with a total of 1,101 participants. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992853
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Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition
Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other...
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