experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition …This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers’ work. …

This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than … estimates of the migration function. Out-of-sample forecasting results indicate the following: (i) the standard fixed effects … variables estimators, (iv) forecasting performance of heterogenous estimators is mediocre in our data set. …

This paper provides a novel approach to forecasting time series subject to discrete structural breaks. We propose a …

. We vary the information workers receive, finding that social comparisons concerning both wages and decision rights affect …