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Reputational Concerns and Advice-Seeking at Work

Heursen, Lea; Friess, Svenja; Chugunova, Marina - 2023

We examine the impact of reputational concerns on seeking advice. While seeking can improve performance, it may affect how others perceive the seeker's competence. In an online experiment with white-collar professionals (N=2,521), we test how individuals navigate this tradeoff and if others'...

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Motivated Procrastination

Cordes, Charlotte; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

, and looms largest for decision makers who tend to not acquire information that may include negative news. …

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Everyone Likes to Be Liked: Experimental Evidence from Matching Markets

Opitz, Timm; Schwaiger, Christoph - 2023

Matching markets can be unstable when individuals prefer to be matched to a partner who also wants to be matched with them. Through a pre-registered and theory-guided laboratory experiment, we provide evidence that such reciprocal preferences exist, significantly decrease stability in matching...

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Interpersonal preferences and team performance: The role of liking in complex problem solving

Opitz, Timm - 2024

be detrimental to performance, and what information about others' interpersonal preferences should be revealed. …

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Peer effects of ambition

Albert, Philipp; Kübler, Dorothea; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana - 2019

Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of social influence on ambition in two distinct domains of achievement, namely performance goals and task complexity. In the first case, participants set themselves...

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Effects of timing and reference frame of feedback: Evidence from a field experiment

Fischer, Mira; Wagner, Valentin - 2019

Information about past performance has been found to sometimes improve and sometimes worsen subsequent performance. Two … factors may help to explain this puzzle: which aspect of one's past performance the information refers to and when it is … revealed. In a field experiment in secondary schools, students received information about their absolute rank in the last math …

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Procrastination and learning about self-control

Christensen, Else Gry Bro; Murooka, Takeshi - 2019

We study a model of task completion with the opportunity to learn about own self-control problems over time. While the agent is initially uncertain about her future self-control, in each period she can choose to learn about it by paying a non-negative learning cost and spending one period. If...

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Do robo-advisors make us better investors?

Back, Camila; Morana, Stefan; Spann, Martin - 2021

Investors increasingly can obtain assistance from "robo-advisors," artificial intelligence - enabled digitalized service agents imbued with anthropomorphic design elements that can communicate using natural language. The present article considers the impact of anthropomorphized robo-advisors on...

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Intermediation, Compensation and Collusion in Insurance Markets

Focht, Uwe; Richter, Andreas; Schiller, Jörg - 2007

Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive problems in commercial and reinsurance markets where intermediation takes place. We show that in markets with informed as well as uninformed consumers and heterogeneous risk profiles...

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COP29 in Azerbaijan: Some Considerations Based on Direct Observations of the Climate Events and Media Contents

Niftiyev, Ibrahim - 2024

This discussion paper examines the key themes and findings from four major events and three pieces of media content on sustainable development, climate finance and environmental policy. Direct observation and structured notes were used as the main methods. The analysis begins with the webinar...

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