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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms
Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016
to the model is the role of a person's social identity in encouraging compliance to a norm. The strength of this identity …
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Peer evaluation : incentives and co-worker relations
Sol, Joeri - 2010
In many workplaces co-workers have the best information about each other's effort. Managers may attempt to exploit this information through peer evaluation. I study peer evaluation in a pure moral hazard model of production by two limitedly liable agents. Agents receive a signal about their...
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Leniency bias in long-term workplace relationships
Tichem, Jan - 2013
This paper studies how firms can efficiently incentivize supervisors to truthfully report employee performance. To this end, I develop a dynamic principal-supervisor-agent model. The supervisor is either selfish or altruistic towards the agent, which is observable to the agent but not to the...
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
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The flipside of comparative payment schemes
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - 2013
Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...
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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne - 2016
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament 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...
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The degradation of distorted performance measures
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2008
Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...
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Testing for distortions in performance measures : an application to residual income based measures like economic value added
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical test developed by Courty and Marschke (2008) to detect whether the widely used class of Residual Income based...
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Social identity strategies in recent economics
Davis, John Bryan - 2005
This paper reviews three distinct strategies in recent economics for using the concept of social identity in the … social identity and personal identity together. The argument of the paper is that too narrow a scope for reflexivity in … and social identity together in connection with an individual behavior termed comparative value-objective evaluation. The …
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Measuring responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait
Buser, Thomas; Gerhards, Leonie; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as "conservatism", and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals ("asymmetry"). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three tasks...
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