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Shirking versus managerial incentives of chief executive officers (CEOs) : a note on a possible misunderstanding of principal-agent theory
Güth, Werner - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 151 (1995) 4, pp. 693-698
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001193175
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Delegation, worker compensation, and strategic compensation
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred - In: Journal of business economics : JBE 85 (2015) 1, pp. 1-13
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476677
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Determinants of in-group bias : group affiliation or guilt-aversion?
Güth, Werner (contributor); Ploner, Matteo (contributor);  … - 2008
investigate what causes the in-group bias: is it due to mere group affiliation or, alternatively, is guilt-aversion a possible … beliefs. We find that mere group affiliation affects beliefs and explains a substantial part of the bias, but we also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003724203
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Delegation, worker compensation, and strategic competition
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred - 2014
We study interfirm competition on a product market where effort decisions are delegated to the firms' workers. Intrafirm organization is captured by a principal-multiagent framework where firm owners implement alternative compensation schemes for the workers. We show that the value of delegation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233989
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Compulsory disclosure of private information : theoretical and experimental results for the acquiring-a-company game
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; Zaby, … - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 175 (2019) 3, pp. 502-523
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168508
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Compulsory disclosure of private information theoretical and experimental results for the acquiring-a-company game
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred - 2014
setting allows us to predict and test the effects of information disclosure as prescribed by two recently implemented … suggest a welfare-enhancing effect of compulsory information disclosure. Hence, the EU Transparency and the EU Takeover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010240604
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Compulsory disclosure of private information : theoretical and experimental results for the "Acquiring-a-Company" game
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; Zaby, … - 2014
setting allows us to predict and test the effects of information disclosure as prescribed by two recently implemented … suggest a welfare-enhancing effect of compulsory information disclosure. Hence, the EU Transparency and the EU Takeover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010253149
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Personal Information Disclosure under Competition for Benefits : Is Sharing Caring?
Ackfeld, Viola - 2019
Personal information is shared extensively every day, partly in exchange for benefits or as a reaction to other people's information sharing. In this paper, we experimentally investigate these two factors by analyzing the interaction of peer comparison and incentives to disclose potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890888
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Personal information disclosure under competition for benefits : is sharing caring?
Ackfeld, Viola; Güth, Werner - 2019
Personal information is shared extensively every day, partly in exchange for benefits or as a reaction to other people's information sharing. In this paper, we experimentally investigate these two factors by analyzing the interaction of peer comparison and incentives to disclose potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988303
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Compulsory disclosure of private information : theoretical and experimental results for the "acquiring-a-company" game ; conference paper
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; Zaby, … - 2014
allows us to predict and test the effects of information disclosure as prescribed by two recently implemented directives of … welfare-enhancing effect of compulsory information disclosure. Hence, the EU Transparency and the EU Takeover-Bid Directive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487717