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Competitive versus cooperative incentives in team production with heterogeneous agents
Dutcher, Glenn E.; Oexl, Regine; Ryvkin, Dmitry; Salmon, Tim - 2021 - This version: September 11, 2021
A debate among practicing managers is whether to use cooperative or competitive incentives for team production. While … competitive incentives may drive individual effort higher, they may also lead to less help and more sabotage; an issue exacerbated … when team members' abilities are varied. Using a lab experiment, we examine how increasing competitive incentives affects …
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Choking under pressure of top performers : evidence from Biathlon competitions
Lindner, Florian - 2017
Psychological pressure affects performance. This is especially true for individuals completing precision tasks in decisive situations, such as assessment tests, job talks, or sports competitions. In this paper, I shed light on detrimental effects of pressure on performance, a phenomenon known as...
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Gossip and the efficiency of interactions
Fehr, Dietmar; Sutter, Matthias - 2016
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe a trustee's behavior and can gossip about it by...
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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013 - This version: 24 June 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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Co-managing common pool resources : do formal rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms
Vollan, Björn; Prediger, Sebastian; Frölich, Markus - 2013
We examine the effectiveness of three democratically chosen rules that alleviate the coordination and cooperation problems inherent in collectively managed common-pool resources. In particular we investigate how rule effectiveness and rule compliance depends on the prevailing local norms and...
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Cooperation under democracy and authoritarian norms
Vollan, Björn; Zhou, Yexin; Landmann, Andreas; Hu, Biliang - 2013
There is ample evidence for a "democracy premium". Laws that have been implemented via election lead to a more cooperative behavior compared to a top-down approach. This has been observed using field data and laboratory experiments. We present evidence from Chinese students and workers who...
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Price efficiency and trading behavior in limit order markets with competing insiders
Stöckl, Thomas - 2013
We study price efficiency and trading behavior in laboratory limit order markets with asymmetrically informed traders. Markets differ in the number of insiders present and in the subset of traders who receive information about the number of insiders present. We observe that price efficiency (i)...
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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007 - This version: 15 October 2007
We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even though in reality teams were largely involved in those auctions, experimental studies on bidding in auctions have so far relied on individual bidders. Our results show that...
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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments : an experimental study
Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007 - This version: 26 June 2007
We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals, compete for a prize there is a need for intra-team coordination in order to win the inter-team competition. Introducing communication in such situations may have ambiguous...
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Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2007 - This version: 04 May 2007
While most papers on team decision-making find that teams behave more selfishly, less trustingly and less altruistically than individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are more altruistic than individuals in a dictator game. Using a within-subjects design we re-examine group...
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