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Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervision
Dittrich, Dennis A. V.; Kocher, Martin G. - 2011
maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427614
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Testing a forgotten aspect of Akerlof’s gift exchange hypothesis: Relational contracts with individual and uniform wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427617
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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - 2012
social dilemmas. We subject our model to data from an experimental public goods game and a risk experiment, and we measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427625
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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolecents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2010
eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427581
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Tempus Fugit: Time Pressure in Risky Decisions
Kocher, Martin G.; Pahlke, Julius; Trautmann, Stefan T. - 2011
prospects involving both gains and losses. In an experiment we find that risk aversion for gains is robust under time pressure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427593
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Social preferences, accountability, and wage bargaining
Kocher, Martin G.; Poulsen, Odile; Zizzo, Daniel J. - 2012
We assess the extent of preferences for employment in a collective wage bargaining situation with heterogeneous workers. We vary the size of the union and introduce a treatment mechanism transforming the voting game into an individual allocation task. Our results show that highly productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427643