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The perks of being in the smaller team : incentives in overlapping contests

March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019

advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for two reasons: First, the incentive to free-ride is smaller in inter …-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intra-divisional contest is less fierce. Both effects induce a higher marginal utility of … effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …

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Lying in competitive environments : a clean identification of behavioral impacts

Dato, Simon; Feess, Eberhard; Nieken, Petra - 2022

.e., succeeding in a competition is valuable per se. We design an experiment that allows us to disentangle financial and psychological …

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Paying to match : decentralized markets with information frictions

Agranov, Marina; Dianat, Ahrash; Samuelson, Larry; … - 2021

We experimentally study decentralized one-to-one matching markets with transfers. We vary the information available to participants, complete or incomplete, and the surplus structure, supermodular or submodular. Several insights emerge. First, while markets often culminate in efficient...

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Why do committees work?

Breitmoser, Yves; Valasek, Justin - 2023

We report on the results of an experiment designed to disentangle behavioral biases in information aggregation of …

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Cooperation and mistrust in relational contracts

Herz, Holger; Schmutzler, Armin; Volk, André - 2016

Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by...

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Parent-child information frictions and human capital investment : evidence from a field experiment

Bergman, Peter - 2015

This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect …

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The attention-information tradeoff

Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2025 - This version: March 2025

experiment that varies freelance professionals’ incentives to attract attention about scientific findings, with several online …

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The role of bounded rationality and imperfect information in subgame perfect implementation : an empirical investigation

Aghion, Philippe; Fehr, Ernst; Holden, Richard T.; … - 2015

In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo’s subgame perfect …

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Democracy and international conflict

Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016

During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...

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The importance of social status in a rent-seeking society

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2024

that increases wealth or through a contest in which unproductive (rent-seeking) effort is used to redistribute wealth …

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