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Gift exchange and workers' fairness concerns : when equality is unfair

Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009

. This is not caused by monetary incentives per se since under both wage schemes it is profit-maximizing for agents to exert …

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Incentive contracts crowd out voluntary cooperation : evidence from gift-exchange experiments

Gächter, Simon; Kaiser, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2024

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many … crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after incentives have been abolished. This crowding out occurs also in repeated …-effort relationships. Our systematic analysis also replicates established results on gift exchange, incentives, and crowding out of …

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Relational contracts and the nature of market interactions

Brown, Martin (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Discretionary latitude and relational contracting

Wu, Steven Y. (contributor); Roe, Brian E. (contributor) - 2007

. Our results are consistent with the theory of strategic ambiguity of Bernheim and Whinston (1998) and can be rationalized …

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Is strong reciprocity a maladaptation? : On the evolutionary foundations of human altruism

Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Henrich, Joseph (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Take a chance on ABBA

Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shapir, Offer Moshe - 2017

The order of actions in contests may generate different psychological effects which, in turn, may influence contestants' probabilities to win. The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence in which the first 'n' moves is the exact mirror image of the next 'n' moves should theoretically terminate any advantage...

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Envy and compassion in tournaments

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002

than purely self-interested agents for a given prize structure. Contrary to standard tournament theory first-best efforts …

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The roles of incentives and voluntary cooperation for contractual compliance

Gächter, Simon; Kessler, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2011

-regarding incentives for contractual compliance are present as well. Here we provide a comprehensive experimental analysis based on the … gift-exchange game of how explicit and implicit incentives affect cooperation. We first show that there is substantial … contracts without any incentives and implicit incentives coming from repeated interaction. Implicit incentives have a strong …

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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence

Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract-enforcement device for work teams. Our findings suggest that the use of such self-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the...

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Moral hypocrisy, power and social preferences

Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2012

We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their actions, just as much as they adjust their actions to their principles. We first elicit the individuals' principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three...

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