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Moral property rights in bargaining with infeasible claims

Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2003

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Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2009 - Revised: April 2009

-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine spillover effects that … economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where individuals …&D races, models of ligitation, and a host of other contests. …

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Comparative analysis of litigation systems : an auction-theoretic approach

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2000

A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown to the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case....

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Showing off or laying low? : the economics of psych-outs

Denter, Philipp; Morgan, John; Sisak, Dana D. - 2018

We study situations where a new entrant with privately known talent competes with an incumbent whose talent is common knowledge. Competition takes the form of a rank-order tournament. Prior to the competition, the newbie can "show off," i.e., send a talent revealing costly signal. We find that...

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Agreeing on public goods or bads

Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023

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Bargaining in the presence of condorcet cycles : the role of asymmetries

Kamm, Aaron; Houba, Harold - 2015

This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment studying the role of asymmetries, both in payoffs and recognition probabilities, in a model of strategic bargaining with Condorcet cycles. Overall, we find only limited support for the equilibrium predictions. The main deviations from...

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Firm-specific information and explicit collusion in experimental oligopolies

Gomez-Martin, Francisco; Onderstal, Sander; Sonnemans, Joep - 2015

to form cartels in Cournot markets. As in previous experiments, markets become very competitive when individualized …

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Employee types and endogenous organizational design

Cunyat, Antoni; Sloof, Randolph - 2008

When managers are sufficiently guided by social preferences, incentive provision through an organizational mode based on informal implicit contracts may provide a cost-effective alternative to a more formal mode based on explicit contracts and monitoring. This paper reports the results from a...

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The effect of noise in a performance measure on work motivation

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2008

This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...

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Rich meets poor : an international fairness experiment

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008

this question and the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social preferences, we …

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