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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay : An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - 2004
reciprocity and inequality aversion reduce the attraction of performance related pay. Other-regarding preferences influence both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261940
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013
mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319469
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884174
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It Hurts To Ask
Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388842
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The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior : Conceptualization and Application
Dekel, Inbal; Cummings, Rachel; Heffetz, Ori; Ligett, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We propose and initiate the study of privacy elasticity--the responsiveness of economic variables to small changes in the level of privacy given to participants in an economic system. Individuals rarely experience either full privacy or a complete lack of privacy; we propose to use differential...
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The Effect of Self-Awareness and Competition on Dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the impact on behaviour in tasks that include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597402
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Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection
Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - 2004
Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be tempted to destroy the production of his competitors in order to improve the own relative position....
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Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we … study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, we analyze how equal wages affect … rather driven by the fact that reciprocity is violated far more frequently in the equal wage treatment. Agents suffering from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761926
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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451190
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Cooperation hidden frontiers : the behavioral foundations of the Italian North-South divide
Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Casari, Marco; … - 2013
Socio-economic performance differs not only across countries but within countries too and can persist even after religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that successful regions are characterized by higher levels of trust, and, more...
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