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Facing Your Opponents: Social Identification and Information Feedback in Contests
Mago, Shakun; Samak, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally investigate the effect of social identification and information feedback on individual behavior in …. Identifying subjects through photo display decreases wasteful effort. Providing information feedback about others’ effort does not … improved information feedback decreases the heterogeneity of effort. …
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Recognizing Contributors: An Experiment on Public Goods
Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112683
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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods
Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267571
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Cubitt, Robin; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307454
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The choice of the agenda in labor negotiations: efficiency and behavioral considerations
Königstein, Manfred; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2005
The labor economics literature has shown that the efficient bargaining model, in which wage and employment are … wage is determined via bargaining and employment determined subsequently and unilaterally by the firm. This paper reports … an experiment in which the choice of the bargaining agenda is endogenous within a noncooperative game. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267680
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The limits of self-governance in the presence of spite: experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia
Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2006
We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...
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Experimental Comparison of Multi-Stage and One-Stage Contests
Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article experimentally studies a two-stage elimination contest and compares its performance with a one-stage contest. Contrary to the theory, the two-stage contest generates higher revenue than the equivalent one-stage contest. There is significant over-dissipation in both stages of the...
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Resource Allocation Contests: Experimental Evidence
Shupp, Robert; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Many resource allocation contests have the property that individuals undertake costly actions to appropriate a potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality. The...
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Essays on Experimental Investigation of Lottery Contests
Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A contest is a situation in which individuals or groups expend costly resources while competing to win a specific prize. The variety of economic situations that can be described as contests has attracted enormous attention from economic theorists. Despite the extensive theoretical research of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259262
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Best-of-Three Contest Experiments: Strategic versus Psychological Momentum
Mago, Shakun; Sheremeta, Roman; Yates, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We conduct an experimental analysis of a best-of-three contest. Intermediate prizes lead to higher efforts, while increasing the role of luck (as opposed to effort) leads to lower efforts. Both intermediate prizes and luck reduce the probability of contest ending in two rounds. The patterns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259589