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Courtesy and idleness: gender differences in team work and team competition
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - 2005
Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267550
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It's Payback Time: New Insights on Cooperation in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
Bigoni, Maria; Casari, Marco; Salvanti, Andrea; … - 2022
In an experiment on the repeated prisoner's dilemma where intended actions are implemented with noise, Fudenberg et al. (2012) observe that non-equilibrium strategies of the "tit-for-tat" family are largely adopted. Furthermore, they do not find support for risk dominance of TFT as a determinant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882599
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Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566353
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Tipping and residential segregation: a unified schelling model
Zhang, Junfu - 2009
This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271313
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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence
Roider, Andreas; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2004
In this paper we analyze the frequently observed phenomenon that (i) some members of a team ("black sheep") exhibit behavior disliked by other (honest) team members, who (ii) nevertheless refrain from reporting such misbehavior to the authorities (they set up a "wall of silence"). Much cited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261919
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Guilt from promise-breaking and trust in markets for expert services: Theory and experiment
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2010
We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert's provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269892
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The economics of credence goods: on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271236
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Can endogenous group formation prevent coordination failure? A theoretical and experimental investigation
Raab, Philippe - 2005
This paper studies the effect of endogenous group formation on the outcome in two types of coordination games with … more groups within which they want to play the coordination game. In the theoretical part we show that a simple myopic best … reply dynamics under endogenous group formation leads to the payoff dominant outcome in both types of coordination games …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267615
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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation
Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - 2003
We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262760
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Negotiating Cooperation under Uncertainty: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions
Dvorak, Fabian; Fehrler, Sebastian - 2018
Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … round of the game. Beyond improving coordination, communication increases efficiency by making subjects' play more lenient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931862