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We present a new experimental design that permits us to explore gender differences in both performance and compensation choice. We design a game in which participants are asked to choose between a flat wage and a tournament scheme and to perform under each scheme. Our data indicate that men and...
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We present a new experiment that explores gender differences in both performance and compensation choices. While most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011209134
This paper focuses on decision making under risk, comparing group and individual risk preferences in a lottery …-choice experiment inspired by Holt and Laury (2002). The experiment presents subjects with a menu of unordered lottery choices which … allows us to measure risk aversion. In the individual treatment, subjects make lottery choices individually ; in the group …
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In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly … be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to …
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Unethical behavior within organizations is not rare. We investigate experimentally the role of status-seeking behavior in sabotage and cheating activities aiming at improving one’s performance ranking in a flat-wage environment. We find that average effort is higher when individuals are...
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Trust is fragile. It is hard to build but easy to destroy. In this paper, we explore the fragility of trust in a stylized laboratory environment. We ask whether transgression outside a direct send-and-return relationship destroys trust and, if so, whether a competition against outsiders or an...
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and necessary financial material resources. Our experiment consists of a two-stage game. First, subjects play a …
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done by running a laboratory experiment that allows us to isolate long-term relationships from the two other components (i ….e. group lending and peer monitoring). Our experiment indicates that peer-lending dimension of microcredit in absence of peer …
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eventually decrease when the tax rate exceeds a threshold value. We conduct a real effort experiment, in which a "worker" is … opportunities tend to respond more emotionally to unfair taxation in our experiment, which is consistent with the observed Laffer …
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done by running a laboratory experiment that allows us to isolate long-term relationships from the two other components (i ….e. group lending and peer monitoring). Our experiment indicates that peer-lending dimension of microcredit in absence of peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661329