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punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … prisoner's dilemma game with in-group as opposed to out-group members. They also use a costly punishment option to selectively … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes antisocial, harming cooperative …
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experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …
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The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent's early actions to the agent's later disadvantage, in a context where binding multi-period contracts are not enforceable. In a simple, context-rich environment, we experimentally...
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In this paper we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals … our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their …
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such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
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We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden …
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experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow …
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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …
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Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
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