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

The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent …

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Social Comparisons in Wage Delegation : Experimental Evidence

Charness, Gary - 2013

. We vary the information workers receive, finding that social comparisons concerning both wages and decision rights affect …

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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-information …

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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

representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these measures can explain two different types of behavior: (i) behavior in …

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An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games

Charness, Gary - 2019

The effectiveness of social interaction depends strongly on an ability to coordinate actions efficiently. In large networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network structure. We examine how pre-play communication and...

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Experimental Games on Networks : Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection

Charness, Gary - 2014

complements, and participants have either complete or incomplete information about the structure of a random network. Since … wide variety of settings.The degree of equilibrium play is striking, in particular with incomplete information. Behavior … coordinate on a demanding, but efficient, equilibrium that is typically implemented with complete information …

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

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863328

Lab Labor : What can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

Charness, Gary - 2010

understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …

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