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Bardsley, Nicholas - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

deception is used and the data cohere well both internally and with other public goods experiments. In addition, simultaneous … a new experimental design, the Conditional Information Lottery, which offers all the benefits of deception without … actually deceiving anyone. The design should be suitable for most economics experiments, and works by a modification of an …

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Confidence Management: On Interpersonal Comparisons in Teams

Crutzen, Benoît S.Y.; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Organization differ in the degree to which they differentiate employees by ability. We analyse how the effect of differentiation on employee morale may explain this variation. By comparing employees using ordinary talk, a manager boosts the self-image of some, but hurts that of others. Whether...

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Money talks? An Experimental Investigation of Cheap Talk and Burned Money

Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We experimentally study the strategic transmission of information in a setting where both cheap talk and money can be used for communication purposes. Theoretically a large number of equilibria exist side by side, in which senders either use costless messages, money, or a combination of the two....

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Decision Making and Learning in a Globalizing World

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We study two aspects of globalization. It allows a decision-maker to go beyond his own local experience and to learn from other decision-makers in addressing common problems. This improves the identification and diffusion of best practices. It also provides extra information to `markets' that...

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Equilibrium Selection in Cheap Talk Games: ACDC rocks when Other Criteria remain silent

Ruiz, Adrian de Groot; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

experiments. …

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Preopening and Equilibrium Selection

Calcagno, Riccardo; Lovo, Stefano - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We introduce a form of pre-play communication that we call "preopening". During the preopening, players announce their tentative actions to be played in the underlying game. Announcements are made using a posting system which is subject to stochastic failures. Posted actions are publicly...

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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

We examine an experimental gift exchange game in which the players can improve upon the unique no-gifts equilibrium through cooperative gift giving. The main feature of the study is that there are two different types of gift exchange, which we call simple and complex exchange, respectively....

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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

Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure. In contrast,...

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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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