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Hidden Costs of Control:Three Repetitions and an Extension
Ploner, Matteo; Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
We report three repetitions of Falk and Kosfeld's (2006) low and medium control treatmentswith 364 subjects. Each repetition employs a sample drawn from a standard subject pool ofstudents and demographics vary across samples. Our results largely conict with those of theoriginal study. We mainly...
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The Hidden Costs of Control:An Unsuccessful Replication Study
Ploner, Matteo; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007
This note reports a replication study of Falk and Kosfeld’s (2006) medium control treatment.In the experimental game, an agent has an endowment of 120 experimental currency units anddecides how much to transfer to a principal. For every unit that the agent gives up, the principalreceives two...
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Tax Morale and (De-)Centralization- An Experimental Study
Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Sausgruber, Rupert - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
population size of eachregion. The experiment shows that centralization induces lower taxmorale and less efficient outcomes. The …
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Mathematical models in educational planning
Stone, Richard (contributor) - 1967
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Test No. 419: Delayed Neurotoxicity of Organophosphorus Substances: 28-day Repeated Dose Study
1995
This Test Guideline is used in the assessment and evaluation of the toxic effects of organophosporus substances. Daily … doses of the test substance are administered orally (preferably by gavage or administration of gelatin capsules) to domestic … with the aim of inducing toxic effects; thereafter a descending sequence of dose levels should be selected. A limit test …
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System of Environmental Economic Accounting 2012 : Experimental Ecosystems Accounting
2014
Ecosystem accounting is a relatively new and emerging field dealing with integrating complex biophysical data, tracking changes in ecosystems and linking those changes to economic and other human activity. Considering the increasing demand for statistics on ecosystems within analytical and...
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Committing to Incentives: Should the Decision to Sanctionbe Revealed or Hidden?
Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
Sanctions are widely used to promote compliance in principal-agent-relationships.While there is ample evidence confirming the predicted positive incentive effect of sanctions,it has also been shown that imposing sanctions may in fact reduce complianceby crowding-out intrinsic motivation. We add...
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the work place –Experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011
We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility(CSR) on workers’ motivation. In our experiment … investments into CSR with increased effort. Amission match does result in higher effort, but only when investment into CSRis high. …
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Response Time under Monetary Incentives:the Ultimatum Game
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; León-Mejía, Ana; Miller, Luis M. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007
This paper studies the response times of experimental subjects playingthe Ultimatum game in a laboratory setting using monetary incentives.We find that proposals are not significantly correlated with responsetime, whereas responders’ behavior is positively and significantlycorrelated. Hence,...
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Financial Incentives and Cognitive Abilities: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load
Rydval, Ondřej - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007
I examine how financial incentives interact with intrinsic motivation and especially cognitive abilities in explaining heterogeneity in performance. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, I show that the effectiveness of high-powered financial incentives as a stimulator of...
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