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In today's business environment, team work is omnipresent. But might teams be more prone toward non-compliance with … of teams' compliance behavior. In particular, we disentangle the effect of deciding jointly as a team of two from sharing … the economic consequences among both team members. Our findings provide evidence that teams are substantially less …
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range from echo chambers to team production. …
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Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …
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Petroleum administration can be regarded as a principal-agent problem. The government allocates exploration and production rights to petroleum companies on behalf of the population. The government is the principal and the companies are agents. With the aim of capturing revenue for the state, the...
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We experimentally investigate the nature of cooperation in various repeated games, with subjects from Romania and USA …. We find stark cross-country differences in the propensity to sustain multilateral cooperation through bilateral rewards …
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in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the … two domains indicated both negative and positive peer influences in honesty and in cooperation, with negative influences …
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cooperation systems that differ both in their level of in-group favoritism and in the tools that they employ to enforce … cooperation regimes. This paper uses an anthropological measure of the tightness of historical kinship systems to study the … structure of cooperation patterns and enforcement devices across historical ethnicities, contemporary countries, ethnicities …
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Descriptive norms - the behavior of other individuals in one's reference group - play a key role in shaping individual decisions. When characterizing the behavior of others, a standard approach in the literature is to focus on average behavior. In this paper, we argue both theoretically and...
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Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...
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. Groups play a repeated coordination game in which they can agree on a payoff-dominant or a payoff-dominated but ideologically …
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