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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420430
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Efficiency gains from team-based coordination : large-scale experimental evidence
Feri, Francesco; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sutter, Matthias - 2008 - This version: 25 September 2008
The need for efficient coordination is ubiquitous in organizations and industries. The literature on the determinants … of efficient coordination has focused on individual decision-making so far. In reality, however, teams often have to … coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733222
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The role of correlation in two-asset games : some experimental evidence
Geiger, Martin; Hule, Richard - 2017
In our experimental setting, participants face the decision to invest into two assets which are subject to correlated information. While fundamental states and signals about fundamental states are correlated, success and default of the investment projects is determined separately. Nevertheless,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719838
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Coordination in evolving networks with endogenous decay
Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2009
direct and indirect connections. In addition to forming (costly) links, agents choose actions for a coordination game that … determines the level of decay of each link. We address the issues of coordination (long-run equilibrium selection) and network … risk-dominance play a crucial role in the long-run behavior of the system. -- coordination ; networks ; risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009735339
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Satisficing in sales competition : experimental evidence
Berninghaus, Siegfried; Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2009
In a duopoly market, aspiration levels express how much sellers want to earn given their expectations about the other's behavior. We augment the sellers' decision task by eliciting their profit aspiration. In a first experimental phase, whenever satisficing is not possible, sales choices, point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734685
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On fraud and certification of corporate social responsibility
Arguedas, Carmen; Blanco, Esther - 2014
We analyze the strategic decision of firms to voluntarily certify corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in a context where other firms can falsely pretend to be socially responsible. Equilibrium outcomes are crucially determined by consumers' beliefs about the credibility of firms' CSR...
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Role selection and team performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011 - This version: 26 July 2011
; communication ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737526
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Decision time and steps of reasoning in a competitive market entry game
Lindner, Florian - 2013 - This version: 22 July 2013
Entry decisions in market entry games usually depend on the belief about how many others are entering the market, the belief about the own rank in a real effort task, and subjects' risk preferences. In this paper I am able to replicate these basic results and examine two further dimensions: (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774194
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Resource scarcity, spite and cooperation
Prediger, Sebastian; Vollan, Björn; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013
Using an experimental approach, this paper examines how scarcity of natural resources affects people's readiness to cooperate and to engage in antisocial behaviour. The experiments were carried out with pastoralists from southern Namibia whose livelihoods are highly dependent on grazing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744188
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Level-k reasoning and time pressure in the 11-20 money request game
Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 29 May 2013
Arad and Rubinstein (2012a) have designed a novel game to study level-k reasoning experimentally. Just like them, we find that the depth of reasoning is very limited and clearly different from equilibrium play. We show that such behavior is even robust to repetitions, hence there is, at best,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752208