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How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213916
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Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game
Dannenberg, Astrid; Löschel, Andreas; Paolacci, Gabriele; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the exact value of the threshold was known, uncertainty was generally detrimental for the public good provision. The...
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Tax compliance under tax regime changes
Heinemann, Friedrich; Kocher, Martin G. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the...
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Discrimination in grading? Experimental evidence from primary school
Sprietsma, Maresa - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. To this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a German native pupil, whereas others believe it was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474670
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Workers into Managers: Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers
Rappe, Christoph; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
. Finally, a quasi-experiment shows that a combination of workshops and individual coaching had measurable effects on leadership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097627
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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756432
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?
Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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How important is industry-specific managerial experience for innovative firm performance?
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957603