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The value of leadership : evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021

Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners alike have emphasized the potential of leadership to foster performance in these settings. However, the causal impact of leadership is difficult to identify, as in agile and...

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of...

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The effect of incentives in non-routine analytical team tasks : evidence from a field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Schindler, David; … - 2018

Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is known about how incentives influence performance in these tasks. In a field experiment with more than 3000 participants, we document a positive effect of bonus incentives on the probability of completion...

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Free-riding in the lab and in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2011

To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We compare results within subjects. In the free-riding treatment,...

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Complexity and distributive fairness interact in affecting compliance behavior

Bellemare, Charles; Deversi, Marvin; Englmaier, Florian - 2019

obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are … intrinsically linked to distributive fairness. We find that compliance remains largely unaffected by complexity when income taxes … taxes appear wasted as they are distributed to a morally dubious charity. Our data further suggest that this non-compliance …

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Endogenous free riding and the decentralized user-fee financing of spillover goods in a n-region economy

Fuest, Clemens; Kolmar, Martin - In: International tax and public finance 20 (2013) 2, pp. 169-191

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Managerial payoff and gift exchange in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen G. - 2012

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. The results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We collect information on...

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The role of salience in performance schemes : evidence from a field experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest in quantity and quality of output. We use data from...

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Does Germany collect revenue from taxing capital income?

Becker, Johannes (contributor); Fuest, Clemens (contributor) - 2005

A widespread objection to the introduction of consumption tax systems claims that this would lead to high tax revenue losses. This paper investigates the revenue effects of a consumption tax reform in Germany. Our results suggest that the revenue losses would be surprisingly low. We find a...

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Is a flat tax reform feasible in a grown-up democracy of Western Europe? : a simulation study for Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - In: International tax and public finance 15 (2008) 5, pp. 620-636

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