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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2012
Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603853
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The Impact of Leadership Incentives in Intergroup Contests
Eisenkopf, Gerald - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2013
group managers and members often differ. Using data from an experiment this paper studies whether this conflict of interests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632915
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Bargaining with random implementation: An experimental study
Anbarci, Nejat; Feltovich, Nick - In: Games and Economic Behavior 76 (2012) 2, pp. 495-514
We use a laboratory experiment to study bargaining with random implementation. We modify the standard Nash demand game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010588271
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Feedback and dynamics in public good experiments
Bigoni, Maria; Suetens, Sigrid - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 1, pp. 86-95
In this paper we study the effects of providing additional feedback about individual contributions and/or earnings on contributions and the dynamics of contributions in a repeated public good game. We include treatments where subjects can freely choose whether to obtain additional information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573038
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Strategic behavior in repeated voluntary contribution experiments
Mengel, Friederike; Peeters, Ronald - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 1, pp. 143-148
We conduct a repeated VCM (voluntary contribution mechanism) experiment using the strategy method and compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574277
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Fight Alone or Together? The Need to Belong
Ke, Changxia - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2011
This study compares contests with exogenous alliance formation under proportional sharing rules with contests among individual players in a laboratory setting. The standard equilibrium predictions are identical for all players because the proportional rule ensures the same payoff incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990329
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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2012
Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious alliances accept a peaceful division of the spoils, and when they fight against each other, and how the inability to commit to a peaceful division affects their effort contributions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990338
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"Success breeds success" or "Pride goes before a fall"? Teams and Individuals in Best-of-Three Contests
Fu, Qiang; Ke, Changxia; Tan, Fangfang - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2013
for one part of the production task. Particularly, we employ a real-effort laboratory experiment to examine how team …We study the impact of progress feedback in team-production contests, in which each team member is solely responsible … members react to the feedback in team-based (best-of-three) contests and whether it differs from that of individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990345
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The Impact of Management Incentives in Intergroup Contests
Eisenkopf, Gerald - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2013
In intergroup contests a manager advises and motivates her group’s members. Her rewards often depend on the subsequent contest expenditure of the members. I test whether such incentives undermine the credibility and effectiveness of a manager’s efforts. In the different experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883486
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Alliances in the shadow of conflict
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012
Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious alliances accept a peaceful division of the spoils, and when they fight against each other, and how the inability to commit to a peaceful division affects their effort contributions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956225