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What drives motivated agents? The "right" mission or sharing it with the principal
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015
the agents' mission, stressing the importance of the economics of identity in labor market settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419478
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On social identity, subjective expectations, and the costs of control
Riener, Gerhard; Wiederhold, Simon - 2011
conjectures in a labor market experiment with perfect monitoring. Our ndings confirm that social identity has important … principal-agent model of control that takes into account social identity (in the sense of Akerlof and Kranton, 2000, 2005). From … the model and previous literature, we conclude that a shared social identity between the principal and agent has both a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286485
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On Social Identity, Subjective Expectations, and the Costs of Control
Riener, Gerhard; Wiederhold, Simon - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
conjectures in a labor market experiment with perfect monitoring. Our ndings confirm that social identity has important … principal-agent model of control that takes into account social identity (in the sense of Akerlof and Kranton, 2000, 2005). From … the model and previous literature, we conclude that a shared social identity between the principal and agent has both a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249775
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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : Social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds
Li, King King - 2010
This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in the English treatment. The main findings are: (1) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286480
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Broken punishment networks in public goods games: Experimental evidence
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Sääksvuori, … - 2012
Abundant evidence suggests that high levels of contributions to public goods can be sustained through self-governed monitoring and sanctions. This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of decentralized sanctioning institutions where punishment opportunities are restricted to agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281653
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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2012
For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291803
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Individual behavior and group membership: comment
Sutter, Matthias - 2008
making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266672
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The provision of public goods with positive group interdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267122
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Provision of multilevel public goods through positive externalities: Experimental evidence
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2012
The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281637
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More than words: Communication in intergroup conflicts
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates or intensifies the problem of collective action. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281661