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The Economics of College Sports: Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits enhance product quality by preserving amateurism. I find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566657
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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762357
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Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
When a multi-plant firm must close one unit due to declining demand it can choose between two alternatives. On the one hand, the firm can announce a certain span of time in which the plants are evaluated according to relative performance with the least performing plant being shut down in the end...
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884116
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884178
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884182
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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884197
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Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Andersson, Lisa; Martinsson, Peter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia that is modified to include multiplicity of reference groups. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884230
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Social Comparisons in Wage Delegation: Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Lacomba, Juan A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This article examines whether social comparisons have behavioral effects on workers' performance when a firm can choose workers' wages or let them choose their own. Firms can delegate the wage decision to neither, one or both workers in the firm. We vary the information workers receive, finding...
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