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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G.; Popova, Vera - 2010
One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267128
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Co-employment of permanently and temporarily employed agents
Güth, Werner; Kocher, Martin G.; Popova, Vera - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
One-shot interaction and repeated interaction often co-exist in the real world. We study possible behavioral effects of this co-existence in a principal-agent setting, in which a principal simultaneously employs a permanent and a temporary agent. Our experimental results indicate that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494223
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Exploring the effects of unequal and secretive pay
Fischer, Sven; Steiger, Eva-Maria - 2009
We experimentally test whether intentional and observable discriminatory pay of symmetric agents in the Winter (2004) game causes low paid agents to reduce effiort. We control for intentionality of wages by either allowing a principal to determine wages or by implementing a random process. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267082
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Downsizing the Labor Force by Low and High Profit Firms– An Experimental Analysis
Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008
One may hope to capture the behavioral and emotional eects of downsizingthe labor force in rather abstract settings as an ultimatum game (see Fischeret al. (2008)), or try to explore downsizing in its more natural principalagentscenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866438
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Exploring the Effects of Unequal and Secretive Pay
Fischer, Sven; Steiger, Eva-Maria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We experimentally test whether intentional and observable discriminatory pay of symmetric agents in the Winter (2004) game causes low paid agents to reduce effiort. We control for intentionality of wages by either allowing a principal to determine wages or by implementing a random process. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464021
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On the malleability of fairness ideals: Order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks
Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015
How malleable are people´s fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent people´s allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether people´s fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348203
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Reciprocity and emotions when reciprocators know each other
Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans - 2006
This is an experimental study of a three-player power-to-take game where a take authority is matched with two responders. The game consists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides how much of the endowment of each responder that is left after the second stage will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261421
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Optimal and Fair Prizing in Sequential Round-Robin Tournaments: Experimental Evidence
Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2022
the prize structure affects the intensity, fair-ness, and dynamic behavior in sequential round-robin tournaments with three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266616
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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation and Trust
Columbus, Simon; Kasper, Matthias; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2023
This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345629
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Optimal and Fair Prizing in Sequential Round-Robin Tournaments : Experimental Evidence
Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2022
the prize structure affects the intensity, fair-ness, and dynamic behavior in sequential round-robin tournaments with three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293842