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Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model
Jasso, Guillermina - 2008
paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268571
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay : An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - 2004
experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261940
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Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2015
We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different … tournament contract incorporating both incentives at the top and at the bottom induces the highest effort, especially in larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345390
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Transparency and Reciprocal Behavior in Employment Relations
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2003
experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by choosing effort levels. In addition to the efforts the principals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261601
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Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions
Brown, Martin; Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst - 2003
contract enforcement. Successful long-term relations exhibit generous rent sharing and high effort (quality) from the very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261611
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Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2004
The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski?s (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous interactions), fairness effects (i.e., exogenous interactions) and sorting effects (i.e., correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262094
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Transparency, inequity aversion, and the dynamics of peer pressure in teams: theory and evidence
Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2008
confirmed in a real effort experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268881
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence: A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - 2010
present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269867
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The good, the bad and the naive: Do fair prices signal good types or do they induce good behaviour?
Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2012
Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do fair prices induce good behavior, or do good experts post fair prices? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: the good choose fair prices and behave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286902
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Reputations, relationships and the enforcement of incomplete contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2006
incomplete contract. It is shown that the efficiency of these solutions is very sensitive to the characteristics of the good or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267674