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Charitable giving among females and males : an empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis
Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - 2012
We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they...
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Corporate social responsibility in the work place : experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2011
We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant, CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. We are testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits...
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What drives motivated agents? : the "right" mission or sharing it with the principal
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015
Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...
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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness : gender-task stereotypes
Große, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - 2010
comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … remaining gender differences for entry into competition are driven by gender-task stereotypes. As a robustness check, we explore … our interpretation. -- Competition, piece rate ; revenue sharing ; gender-task stereotype ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944236
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018
factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability, we add the possibility for clients to … make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. While the combination of competition and reputation …. Thus, our results suggest that a voluntary component can act as a substitute for either competition or reputation …
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Downsizing the labor force by low and high profit firms : an experimental analysis
Güth, Werner; Paul, Christian - 2008
One may hope to capture the behavioral and emotional effects of downsizing the laborforce in rather abstract settings as an ultimatum game (see Fischer et al. (2008)), or try to explore downsizing in its more natural principalagent scenario with a labor market background. We pursue the latter...
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Judgmental overconfidence and trading activity
Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - 2012
aversion, but the gender trading gap vanishes as risk aversion lessens. The reason is that the trading activity of women seems …
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Generosity, greed and gambling : what difference does asymmetric information in bargaining make?
Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - 2009
We analyze the effects of asymmetric information concerning the size of a pie on proposer behavior in three different bargaining situations: the ultimatum game, the Yes-No-game and the dictator game. Our data show that (a) irrespective of the information condition, proposer generosity increases...
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Overweighting private information : three measures, one bias?
Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - 2010
on the well-established "miscalibration" bias. We find no gender differences in overconfidence for our measures except …
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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...
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