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Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution--An Experimental Investigation

Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - In: Management Science 59 (2013) 1, pp. 54-68

A real-effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …

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Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Antisocial Motivations

Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan; Sutter, … - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 5, pp. 948-960

Firms are often organized into groups. Group membership has been shown empirically to have positive effects, in the form of increased prosocial behavior toward in-group members. This includes an enhanced willingness to engage in altruistic punishment of inefficient defection. Our paper provides...

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Bubbles and Information: An Experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 2, pp. 384-393

A symmetric distribution of information, although omnipresent in real markets, is rarely considered in experimental economics. We study whether information about imminent future dividends can abate bubbles in experimental asset markets. We find that markets with asymmetrically informed traders...

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Gender, Competition, and Managerial Decisions

Price, Curtis R. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 1, pp. 114-122

The purpose of this study is to investigate the <i>use of</i> competitive compensation between a manager and a worker in the laboratory. To this end, we impose a simple agency relationship between two groups of subjects termed managers and workers. The manager chooses a compensation scheme for the...

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Norms and Contracting

Kessler, Judd B.; Leider, Stephen - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 1, pp. 62-77

these norms. In a laboratory experiment, we allow agents to make simple contracts before they play one of four games, and …

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An Experimental Test of Advice and Social Learning

Bo\u{g}açhan Çelen; Kariv, Shachar; Schotter, Andrew - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 10, pp. 1687-1701

introduces advice giving into the standard social-learning experiment of Çelen and Kariv (Çelen, B., S. Kariv. 2005. An … experimental test of observational learning under imperfect information. Econom. Theory 26(3) 677-699). The experiments are …

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An Experiment in Approval Voting

Fishburn, Peter C.; Little, John D. C. - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 5, pp. 555-568

the TIMS experiment society members received an experimental approval ballot along with their official plurality ballot … the type usually emphasized in the approval voting literature. The experiment demonstrated the practicality of approval … approval winner had broader support in the electorate than the plurality winner. The experiment also provided empirical data on …

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Moral Property Rights in Bargaining with Infeasible Claims

Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 2, pp. 249-263

shape negotiation behavior considerably. By using the novel setup of a Übargaining with claimsÝ experiment, we provide new …

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