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The roles of incentives and voluntary cooperation for contractual compliance
Gächter, Simon; Kessler, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2011
voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278670
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The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance
Gächter, Simon; Kessler, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149162
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Reputations, relationships and the enforcement of incomplete contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2006
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267674
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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2004
interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262127
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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004
reasonably approximate real-life decision makers? behavior. Testing this theory with field data is difficult since typically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262147
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Knowing What Works The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
problem. It introduces several approaches, based on both experiments and on non-experimental data, that have been proposed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262297
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Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
when controlled experiments are not a viable option, appropriate approaches might succeed where traditional empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262600
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262760
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Discrimination and Workers' Expectations: Experimental Evidence
Filippin, Antonio - 2003
-run persistence of observed discrimination against certain minorities in the labor market. The experiment provides some evidence … experiment, failing to generate a Self-Confirming Equilibrium driven by wrong beliefs. The strategy method provides additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261558
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Information and beliefs in a repeated normal-form game
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David - 2008
We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge of the game structure and feedback about choices in the previous period, we run treatments (i) without feedback about previous play, (ii) with no information about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268780