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Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

competition for principals or agents. While we do observe substantial and significant ratchet effects in the baseline (no … competition) case of our model, we find that ratchet behavior is nearly eliminated by labor-market competition; interestingly this …

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition : An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madiès, Thierry - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …

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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency : An Experiment

Cabrales, Antonio - 2006

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …

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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes : An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

The population of most developed societies is graying. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these labor-force...

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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence

Charness, Gary - 2010

In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...

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Ingratiation and Favoritism : Experimental Evidence

Robin, Stéphane - 2012

We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...

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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior Under Risk in and Outside of the Laboratory?

Charness, Gary - 2019

We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these measures can explain two different types of behavior: (i) behavior in laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii)...

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The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

We conduct an artefactual field experiment to examine various spillover effects of Affirmative Action policies in the context of castes in India. We test a) if individuals who compete in the presence of Affirmative Action policies remain competitive in the same proportion after the policy has...

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Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior : Theory, Estimation and Empirical Evidence

Garbarino, Ellen - 2016

We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report dishonestly are more likely to lie to avoid receiving the low payoff the lower the ex-ante probability...

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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