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Fairness, adverse selection, and employment contracts

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2005

extent of their fairness concerns. Fairness is modelled as inequity aversion, where fair-minded workers suffer if their … colleagues get more income net of production costs. Screening workers with equal productivity but different fairness concerns is … the fraction of fair-minded workers. As a result, fairness might influence the employment contracts of all workers …

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Imitation under stress

Buckert, Magdalena; Oechssler, Joerg; Schwieren, Christiane - 2014

Imitating the best strategy from the previous period has been shown to be an important heuristic, in particular in relatively complex environments. In this experiment we test whether subjects are more likely to use imitation if they are under stress. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly....

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How do sellers benefit from buy-it-now prices in Ebay auctions? : an experimental investigation

Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2018

In Buy-It-Now (BIN, hereafter) auctions, sellers can make a "take-it-or-leave-it" price offer (BIN price) prior to an auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that...

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Nudging cooperation

Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - 2018

This paper experimentally studies two simple interventions aimed at increasing public goods provision in settings in which accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to exploit lying aversion by requiring subjects to send a non-verifiable ex post...

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Competition and fatigue at work

Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2018

We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they have to take into account fatigue, which accumulates over...

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Cross-game learning and cognitive ability in auctions

Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kocher, Martin; … - 2022

Overbidding in sealed-bid second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we...

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The lifecycle of affirmative action policies and its effect on effort and sabotage behavior

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, Martin - 2023 - This version: May 16, 2023

A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...

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Courtesy and idleness : gender differences in team work and team competition

Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - 2005

Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...

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Price formation in a sequential selling mechanism

Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2005

This paper analyzes the trade of an indivisible good within a two-stage mechanism, where a seller first negotiates with one potential buyer about the price of the good. If the negotiation fails to produce a sale, a second 'price sealed' bid auction with an additional buyer is conducted. The...

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Adding a stick to the carrot? : the interaction of bonuses and fines

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2007

In this paper we report on a principal-agent experiment where the principal can choose whether to rely on an unenforcable bonus contract or to combine the bonus contract with a fine if the agent's effort falls below a minimum standard. We show that most principals do not use the fine and that...

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