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We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … ability or implementation constraints in running a business. Policies aimed at team creation for start-up enterprises may have …
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Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … experiment suggests that top performers are particularly motivated by the combination of team incentives and team RPF. In fact …
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This paper reports results of two controlled experiments on the behavioural effects of relative performance information (RPI) in different organizational structures. Our baseline study 1 focuses on a centralized organizational structure where employees are exogenously assigned to either a...
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Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can … create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and …
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The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments … more actively in the team-building task. …
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We analyze gender bias in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet women …’s implementation constraints in running a business. Policies aimed at team formation and alleviating family-related constraints may …
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This paper investigates how group membership and competition among trustors interact with trust and trustworthiness in … competition leads to a decrease in trustworthiness, especially among partners. We argue that once competition comes into play … reduces reciprocity. -- trust ; reciprocity ; investment game ; group membership ; competition …
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Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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Collective contests are examined permitting heterogeneity of stakes within every competing group. Our first concern is whether unequal distribution of stakes in a group can enhance its win probability. Our second concern is whether a large stake in a group can be individually disadvantageous. We...
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This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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