theory, while sociological theories of social ties and intergroup comparisons suggest that bilateral cooperation can be …

the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals’ incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments …

observed in detected cartels. We show formally why these schemes are useful for dampening deviation incentives when colluding …

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for …

examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …

This paper quantifies a tenant-side "split incentives" problem that exists when the largest commercial sector customers … previous split incentives papers, and is robust when exposed to several opportunities to fail. The electricity reduction in …

We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …