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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment
Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703707
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Optimal contracts, adverse selection and social preferences: An experiment
Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
experiment to explore optimal contracts in an adverse-selection context. A principal proposes one of three contract menus, each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772130
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Taking the initiative. What characterizes leaders?
Bruttel, Lisa; Fischbacher, Urs - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 147-168
Taking the initiative is a crucial element of leadership and an important asset for many jobs. We assess this element of leadership in a game in which it emerges spontaneously since people have a non-obvious possibility to take the initiative. We can show that leadership in this game correlates...
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Starting small toward voluntary formation of efficient large groups in public goods provision
Charness, Gary; Yang, Chun-Lei - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 102 (2014) C, pp. 119-132
We test a mechanism whereby groups are formed voluntarily, through the use of voting. These groups play a public-goods game, where efficiency increases with group size (up to a limit, in one treatment). It is feasible to exclude group members, to exit one's group, or to form larger groups...
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Other-regarding Preferences, Group Identity and Political Participation: An Experiment
Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We experimentally study the relationship between other-regarding preferences, group identity and political … participation. In doing so, we propose a novel group identity induction procedure that succeeds in creating environments where in … differences between environments where group identity is high and low. This suggests that the higher participation observed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256817
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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals ?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884177
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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - Banco de México - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are the correlations between experimental choices with indicators regarding the security of property, trust and the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837050
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010587707
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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - CESifo - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries— Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595381