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Behavioral Aspects of Communication in Organizations
Casoria, Fortuna - 2020
This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on be-havior in organizational … research that tests whether com-munication can help to overcome coordination failure within organizations, and (b) studies that … analyze the role of communication in alleviating problems arising from information asym-metries at the workplace. The evidence …
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Deceptive Communication
Alempaki, Despoina; Burdea, Valeria; Read, Daniel - 2021
In cases of conflict of interest, people can lie directly about payoff relevant private information, or they can evade the truth without lying directly. We analyse this situation theoretically and test the key predictions in an experimental sender-receiver setting. We find senders prefer to...
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The role of salience in performance schemes: Evidence from a field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281805
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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers
Herberholz, Lars - 2020
The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
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Dimensions of Donation Preferences : The Structure of Peer and Income Effects
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892086
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Pricing Group Membership
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha - 2020
We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types' which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...
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Competition and the Role of Group Identity
Cornaglia, Francesca - 2019
The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze how individuals' willingness to compete is...
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Peer Effects in Product Adoption
Bailey, Michael - 2019
We study the nature of peer effects in the market for new cell phones. Our analysis builds on de-identified data from Facebook that combine information on social networks with information on users’ cell phone models. To identify peer effects, we use variation in friends’ new phone...
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Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in Stem Participation
Brenoe, Anne Ardila - 2019
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861442
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Motivation Crowding in Peer Effects : The Effect of Solar Subsidies on Green Power Purchases
La Nauze, Andrea - 2021
I test whether economic incentives dampen peer effects in public-good settings. I study how a visible and subsidized contribution to a public good (installing solar panels) affects peer contributions that are neither subsidized nor visible (electing green power). Exploiting spatial variation in...
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