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. We consider both a piece rate compensation scheme, where pay depends solely on own performance, and a team compensation … scheme, where pay also depends on the performance of other team members. Overall, we find some evidence that subjects who are … observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …
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We study experimentally the impact of pre-play social interactions on negotiations. These interactions are often …
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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios …
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. We document that price setting frictions, arising from adjustment costs of human decision makers, induce a conflict of … price recommendations are strategically biased and lead to suboptimal pricing by human decision makers. We quantify the …
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Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...
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countries with less secure property rights. The theory suggests that adjusted net saving estimates calculated by the World Bank …
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The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...
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In small groups norm enforcement is provided by mutual punishment and reward. In large societies we have enforcement institutions. This paper shows how such institutions can emerge as a decentralized equilibrium. In a first stage, individuals invest in a public enforcement technology. This...
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We describe a dynamic model of costly information sharing, where private information affecting collective-value actions is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals make voluntary contributions towards the provision of a pure public good, and information transmission about quality of...
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