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Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - CESifo - 2013

Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal – at least partly – from an assumed positive...

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Use and Abuse of Authority - A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2013

Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However … behavioral forces shape an important transaction cost of integration – the abuse of authority – and by providing an empirical …

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Let the Market Decide: An Experimental Study of Competition and Fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2014

competitive auction to determine the terms of trade than if she uses her authority to dictate the same terms directly. Our results …

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The Lure of Authority : Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

Fehr, Ernst - 2012

Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational … origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in … an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain authority even when its delegation is in their material interest …

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Monitoring Your Friends, Not Your Foes : Strategic Ignorance and the Delegation of Real Authority

Dominguez-Martinez, Silvia; Sloof, Randolph; von … - 2021

In this laboratory experiment we study the use of strategic ignorance to delegate real authority within a firm. A …

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