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Can communication mitigate strategic delays in investment timing?

Mermer, Ayse; Onderstal, Sander; Sonnemans, Joep - 2022

experiment, while coordination failures emerge in the following periods sweeping away the beneficial effect of communication at … others creating socially suboptimal outcomes. We investigate if and how communication mitigates the strategic delay in … introducing communication into this setting reduces strategic delay. We implement our model in a laboratory experiment utilizing a …

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Sharing information through delegation and collaboration

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2004

This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and … explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two …

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Money talks? : an experimental investigation of cheap talk and burned money

Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011

used for communication purposes. Theoretically a large number of equilibria exist side by side, in which senders either use …

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Technology adoption subsidies : an experiment with managers

Aalbers, Rob F.; Heijden, Eline C. van der; Potters, Jan; … - 2007

We evaluate the impact of technology adoption subsidies on in- vestment behavior in an individual choice experiment. In a laboratory setting professional managers are confronted with an intertemporal decision problem in which they have to decide whether or not to search for, and possibly adopt,...

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Control without deception

Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000

Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect ofmaking "others' behaviour" a controlled variable,but is eschewed by experimental economists because it may pollute thepool of subjects. This paper proposes andimplements a new experimental design, the Conditional...

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Democracy and regulation : the effects of electoral competition on infrastructure investments

Schram, Arthur; Ule, Aljaz - 2013

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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? : evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures

Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020

We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...

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Measuring power and satisfaction in societies with opinion leaders : dictator and opinion leader properties

Brink, René van den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - 2009

A well known and established model in communication policy in sociology and marketing is that of opinion leadership …

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Competitive prices as profit-maximizing cartel prices

Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Wen, Quan - 2010

Even under antitrust enforcement, firms may still form a cartel in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model when the discount factor is sufficiently close to one. We present a linear oligopoly model where the profit-maximizing cartel price converges to the competitive equilibrium price as the...

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Equilibrium selection under different learning modes in supermodular games

Kaarbøe, Oddvar M.; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999

We apply the dynamic stochastic framework proposed by recent evolutionaryliterature to the class of strict supermodular games when two simplebehavior rules coexist in the population, imitation and myopic optimization.We assume that myopic optimizers are able to see how well their payoff...

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