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Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007

transfers from parents to children are gifts, and not temporary help to overcome liquidity constraints. Second, inter vivos … gifts are compensatory in the sense that life-time poorer children will receive higher transfers than their life-time richer … siblings. Third, inter vivos gifts do not, however, make up the entire difference in life-time incomes. …

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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts

Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne - 2016

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage gifts are ineffective. Additional treatments show that it is the …

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Intention-based reciprocity and the hidden costs of control

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2011

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Should the same side of the market always move first in a transaction? : an experimental study

Heijden, Eline C. van der; Nelissen, Jan H. M.; Verbon, … - 2000

buyer) always moves second in the exchange gives higher payoffs than exchangesin which it is randomly determined who moves …

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Agreeing on public goods or bads

Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023

Without regulation or agreement, public goods are underprovided and public bads are overprovided. Both problems are usually seen as flip sides of the same coin. In this paper we examine a situation where a public good is good for some agents but bad for others, and this preference is endogenous...

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Do polls create momentum in political competition?

Denter, Philipp; Sisak, Dana - 2013 - This version: October 2013

We explore how public opinion polls affect candidates' campaign spending in political competition. Generally, polls lead to (more) asymmetric behavior. Under a majority rule there always exists an equilibrium in which the initially more popular candidate invests more in the campaign and thereby...

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On the measurement of success and satisfaction

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2012

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Members, joiners, free-riders, supporters

Ansink, Erik; Withagen, Cees - 2015

We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...

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Discretionary authority and prioritizing in government agencies

Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Tóth, Lukás; Tuinstra, Jan - 2015

Government agencies typically have a certain freedom to choose among different possible courses of action. This paper studies agency decision-making on priorities in a principal-agent framework with multi-tasking. The agency head (the principal) has discretion over part of the agency's budget to...

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Positional power in hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare...

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