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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214041
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Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control
Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to no support. In this paper we test whether this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274366
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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior
Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
to clicks by implementing treatments with and without earmuffs. Moreover, we test whether the introduction of a minimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274368
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279246
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The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?
Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
"good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279266
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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
that receive different wages. We present the first test of this component, which we call the fair uniform-wage hypothesis …. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279270
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Image and Misreporting
Ewers, Mara; Zimmermann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
contexts where truthful reports maximize monetary outcomes. In addition, we test the model's predictions in a controlled lab … experiment. In the experiment, all subjects go through a series of quiz questions and subsequently report a performance measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279286
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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work
Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279313
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Market Design and Moral Behavior
Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Stefan, Matthias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the … different interventions to a kind of robustness check. We find that the threat of monetary punishment promotes moral behavior in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265302