The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that …

committee, in whicha subset of members may meet prior to the voting in the committeeand therefore has the possibility to reach … the setting of interest rates by the committee, provided thatmembers on average are equally skilled and voting takes place …

qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …

use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the …

, pages 402-422.<P> A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral … they are audited, there is a fine for underreporting. This experiment was organized (separately) among high school pupils …

This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured … than in the stable environment. This finding is in line with standard agency theory and contrasts a distinct element of … expectancy theory; noisier performance measures do not lower work motivation.<P>This discussion paper has resulted in a …

seller has private information about his alternative trading opportunities. Theory predicts that, compared with a situation … these predictions, private information appears to have no impact on the investment levels observed in the experiment. A …