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Conversations
Köster, Mats; Voss, Paul - 2023
We develop a theory of conversations. Two agents with different interests take turns choosing the topic of the conversation. Talking about a single topic allows them to delve deeper, making the conversation more informative (or enjoyable). To capture this dynamic, we assume that the marginal...
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Loss of peers and individual worker performance : evidence from H-1B visa denials
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Doran, Kirk B.; Marinoni, Astrid; … - 2022
We study how restrictive immigration policies and the unexpected loss of peers affect the performance of skilled migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find that employees who lost peers of the same ethnic...
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Information transmission and ownership consolidation in aid programs
Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013
This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors ́choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a "delegation-scheme." Conversely, project...
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Information transmission within federal fiscal architectures : theory and evidence
Gehring, Kai; Kotsogiannēs, Chrēstos; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013
" consists of unverifiable information and the quality of communication depends on the conflict of interests between the …
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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2014
Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...
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Behavioral aspects of communication in organizations
Casoria, Fortuna; Riedl, Arno; Werner, Peter - 2020
This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on be-havior in organizational … research that tests whether com-munication can help to overcome coordination failure within organizations, and (b) studies that … analyze the role of communication in alleviating problems arising from information asym-metries at the workplace. The evidence …
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Compliance in teams - implications of Joint decisions and shared consequences
Lohse, Tim; Simon, Sven A. - 2019
In today's business environment, team work is omnipresent. But might teams be more prone toward non-compliance with laws and regulations than single individuals despite imminent neg-ative consequences of uncovering misconduct? The recent prevalence of corporate delinquencies gives rise to this...
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Social preferences, trust, and communication when the truth hurts
Gehle, Jonathan; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2024
We investigate how heterogeneous social preferences affect the communication of painful information in social …
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The role of salience in performance schemes : evidence from a field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …, reduces quality, and increases in-pocket income of team managers. -- incentives ; attention ; salience ; communication ; field …
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Relative performance feedback to teams
Gjedrem, William Gilje; Kvaløy, Ola - 2018
Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects...
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