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Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Celik Katreniak, Dagmara - 2018

This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a...

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Dishonesty as a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma

Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2022

We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...

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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 … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …

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Deception and Incentives: How Dishonesty Undermines Effort Provision

Fehr, Ernst; Ederer, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational...

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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...

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In search of stars: network formation among heterogeneous agents

Goeree, Jacob K.; Riedl, Arno; Ule, Aljaz - 2005

This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with decay and two-way flow of benefits by allowing for agents with lower linking costs or higher...

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Priming cooperation in social dilemma games

Drouvelis, Michalis; Metcalfe, Robert; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010

Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure effects of a rather subtle mechanism on social preferences in a one-shot linear public good game....

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Information, uncertainty, and subjective entitlements in bargaining

Karagözoğlu, Emin; Riedl, Arno - 2010

More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...

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Testing for the Ratchet Effect: Evidence from a Real-Effort Work Task

Cardella, Eric; Depew, Briggs - 2016

The "ratchet effect" refers to a phenomenon where workers whose compensation is based on productivity strategically restrict their output, relative to their capability, because they rationally anticipate that high levels of output will be met with increased or "ratcheted-up" expectations in the...

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Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - 2015

The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...

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