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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?
Herz, Holger - 2013
that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087286
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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013
that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877694
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I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams
Gerhards, Leonie - 2017
We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952473
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik - 2011
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133607
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134512
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Worker Characteristics and Wage Differentials : Evidence from a Gift-Exchange Experiment
Englmaier, Florian - 2011
productivity and their social preferences. This paper presents causal evidence that they do. In a real-effort experiment, we elicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118359
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Spillover Effects of Minimum Wages : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Dittrich, Marcus - 2011
We study the spillover effects of minimum wages in a laboratory experiment. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120274
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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods
Cettolin, Elena - 2011
In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120907
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Social Preferences in the Lab : A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population
Cappelen, Alexander W. - 2011
Can lab experiments on student populations serve to identify the motivational forces present in society at large? We address this question by conducting, to our knowledge, the first study of social preferences that brings a nationally representative population into the lab, and we compare their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122414
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A Gift is Not Always a Gift : Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123801