In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

improving efficiency. …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique …'s expenditure as a determinant of its efficiency per unit of cost. We find that when expenditure is not included, the trust …

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …