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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771729
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The tragedy of corruption
Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the public officials is introduced when the number of officials accepting a bribe from firms reaches a certain threshold. We show that, despite the social risk, the pursuit of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528171
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518078
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Compensating differentials in experimental labor markets
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - 2015
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting … differentials are affected by worker mobility and therefore selection. Consistent with the theory, we find that riskier firms must …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477537
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The effect of self-awareness and competition on dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494900
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Ceding control : an experimental analysis of participatory management
Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2017
We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613160
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Dishonesty as a collective-risk social dilemma
Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2022
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471466
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
's key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out - transparency negatively … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516456
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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 … induced values, which is useful for theory-testing purposes as well as for applications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528809
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Contribution games and the end-game effect : when things get real ; an experimental analysis
Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2013
rounds and the end-game effect is reversed. -- public goods experiment ; end-game effect ; free-riding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727615