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Information and competition entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282257
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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279246
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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004
Holmström?s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision makers?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262147
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Competition and the Ratchet Effect
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent's early actions to the agent's later disadvantage, in a context where binding multi-period contracts are not enforceable. In a simple, context-rich environment, we experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233858
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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003
period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261622
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Moral hypocrisy, power and social preferences
Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2012
We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286903
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329015
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352276
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Motivated Memory in Dictator Games
Saucet, Charlotte; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2018
whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984618
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Measuring trust: experiments and surveys in contrast and combination
Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269108