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Simple and Complex Gift Exchange in the Laboratory

Heijden, Eline C.M. van der; Nelissen, Jan H.M.; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

requires not only mutual trust, like simple exchange, but also a substantial degree of coordination. We examine whether players …

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An Experimental Investigation of Wage Taxation and Unemployment in Closed and Open Economies

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed economy and an international economy. The main findings are the following. (i) There is clear evidence of a vicious circle in the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and...

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Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …

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The Interaction between Explicit and Relational Incentives: An Experiment

Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We consider repeated trust game experiments to study the interplay between explicit and relational incentives. After …

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On the Importance of Default Breach Remedies

Sloof, Randolph; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

contract terms. This paper presents results from an experiment designed to address the importance of default breach remedies …

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Cooperation in an Overlapping Generations Experiment

Offerman, Theo; Potters, Jan; Verbon, Harry A.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

Recent theoretical work shows that folk theorems can be developed for infinite overlapping generations games. Cooperation in such games can be sustained as a Nash equilibrium. Besides the efficient cooperative equilibrium there is also the inefficient non-cooperative equilibrium. This paper...

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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured …

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Employee Types and Endogenous Organizational Design

Cunyat, Antoni; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

and monitoring. This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to test whether organizations make <I …

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Tax Liability Side Equivalence in Gift-Exchange Labor Markets

Riedl, Arno; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Tax Liability Side Equivalence (tax LSE) claims that the statutory incidence of a tax is irrelevant for its economic incidence. In gift-exchange labor markets, firms provide a gift to workers by paying high wages, and workers reciprocate by providing high efforts. Tax LSE is theoretically...

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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income

Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral patterns related … audited, there is a fine for underreporting. This experiment was organized (separately) among high school pupils, high school …

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