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an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort … provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production … induced values, which is useful for theory-testing purposes as well as for applications. …
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factors: risk, temptation, and efficiency, which we vary as orthogonal treatments. We find that temptation has the largest … relatively small compared to temptation. Risk does not have a significant effect on cooperation. Our finding suggests that …
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interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us …
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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We …
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We present a simple classroom principal-agent experiment that can effectively be used as a teaching device to introduce … agents and decide on an effort level. The experiment can be used to introduce students to the concepts of efficiency …
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Psychological game theory can provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs, and …
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We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
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One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others,...
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