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Incentives for cooperation in teams: sociality meets decision rights
Butz, Britta; Guillén, Pablo; Harbring, Christine - 2021
We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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Combining "real effort" with induced effort costs : the ball-catching task
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2015
an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
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Helping in teams
Danilov, Anastasia; Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2014
benchmark is tested in an experiment. Furthermore, we provide the first clean one-shot experimental test of the Lazear and Rosen … (1981) tournament model. In a second experiment, we investigate the effectiveness of corporate value statements to encourage …
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Helping under a combination of team and tournament incentives
Danilov, Anastasia; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Harbring, Christine - 2019
the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …
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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …
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Can contracts signal social norms? : experimental evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013
consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions …
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Exploitation aversion : when financial incentives fail to motivate agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - 2013
intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
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Implicit contracts, unemployment, and labor market segmentation
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2010
We analyze the impact of imperfect contract enforcement on the emergence of unemployment. In an experimental labor market where trading parties can form long-term employment relationships, we compare a work environment where effort is observable, but not verifiable to a situation where explicit...
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Intermittent reinforcement and the persistence of behavior : experimental evidence
Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010
-effort experiment in which individuals had to decide when to exit the situation: a continuous reinforcement schedule (all periods paid … reinforcement ; ambiguity ; randomness ; incentives ; experiment …
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