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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011
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 … status. People increase their effort when they are informed about their relative performance, and some individuals pay to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186505
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary - 2010
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 … learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We find that people express both intrinsic motivation and a taste for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141233
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary - 2010
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 … learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We find that people express both intrinsic motivation and a taste for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141393
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Social comparisons in wage delegation : experimental evidence
Charness, Gary; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Lacomba, Juan A.; … - 2013
This article examines whether social comparisons have behavioral effects on workers' performance when a firm can choose workers' wages or let them choose their own. Firms can delegate the wage decision to neither, one or both workers in the firm. We vary the information workers receive, finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226059
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Imitation and the evolution of Walrasian behavior : theoretically fragile but behaviorally robust
Apesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Joerg; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641693
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Deferred compensation and gift exchange : an experimental investigation into multi-period labor markets
Huck, Steffen (contributor); Seltzer, Andrew (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115504
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Pricing and trust
Huck, Steffen (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411003
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Letting down the team? : evidence of social effects of team incentives
Babcock, Philip; Bedard, Kelly; Charness, Gary; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825345
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Imitation and the evolution of Walrasian behavior : theoretically fragile but behaviorally robust
Apesteguia, Joe; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Joerg; … - 2007
A well-known result by Vega-Redondo implies that in symmetric Cournot oligopoly, imitation leads to the Walrasian outcome where price equals marginal cost. In this paper we show that this result is not robust to the slightest asymmetry in fixed costs. Instead of obtaining the Walrasian outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003593007
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Pricing and trust
Huck, Steffen; Ruchala, Gabriele K.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003431693