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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie-Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858028
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Promotions, Demotions, Halo Effects and Earnings Dynamics of American Executives
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2006
This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past earnings growth on components of current earnings and earnings growth using a large panel of US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086290
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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2011
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded ? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318144
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La production scientifique des enseignants-chercheurs en économie : Quelques résultats économétriques issus du dispositif PES
Lesueur, Jean-Yves - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2010
La littérature sur la mesure et les déterminants de la production scientifique des enseignantschercheurs s’est montrée particulièrement prolifique ces dix dernières années. Le cas français est particulièrement intéressant à étudier tant les successions de réformes en vue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774503
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The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2004
We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital, unobserved (to the econometrician) individual specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005112711
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Physicians’ balance billing, supplemental insurance and access to health care
Jelovac, Izabela - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013
Some countries allow physicians to balance bill patients, that is, to bill a fee above the one that is negotiated with, and reimbursed by the health authorities. Balance billing is known for restricting access to physicians’ services while supplemental insurance against balance billing amounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858038
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Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments
Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2006
When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a … to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether … allowing subjects to self-select into different payment schemes helps in reducing the variability of performance in tournaments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086299
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Endogenous Leadership Selection and Influence
Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2007
In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056850
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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056862
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Experimental Evidence on Inequity Aversion and Self-Selection between Incentive Contracts
Teyssier, Sabrina - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2008
This paper reports on the results of an experiment testing whether the agents selfselect between a competitive payment scheme and a revenue-sharing scheme depending on their inequity aversion. Average efficiency should be increased when these payment schemes are endogenously chosen by agents. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056867