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Illusion of control and the pursuit of authority
Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2014
In a laboratory experiment, we measure subjects' willingness to pay for a transparently useless decision right …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347041
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Money talks? An Experimental Investigation of Cheap Talk and Burned Money
de Haan, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011
We experimentally study the strategic transmission of information in a setting where both cheap talk and money can be used for communication purposes. Theoretically a large number of equilibria exist side by side, in which senders either use costless messages, money, or a combination of the two....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325974
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An Experimental Comparison of Reliance Levels Under Alternative Breach Remedies
Sloof, Randolph; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2000
predicts that some commonly used types of breach remedies may protect too well, in the sense that they induce over-investment … provide, and the potential possibility to prevent breach by increasing the damage payment due through the investment made. The … paper we report on an experiment designed to address this issue. Three different remedies are studied: (i) liquidated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159171
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On the effect of anchoring on valuations when the anchor is transparently uninformative
Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2020 - Revision: April 2020
We test whether markets are needed to mitigate the effects of anchoring on peoples' pref- erences. We anchor subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122507
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Communication versus (restricted) delegation : an experimental comparison
Dominguez-Martinez, Silvia; Sloof, Randolph - 2016
This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment investigating a manager's decision whether or not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520494
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Communication Versus (Restricted) Delegation : An Experimental Comparison
Dominguez-Martinez, Silvia - 2016
This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment investigating a manager's decision whether or not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987499
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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation : A Real Effort Laboratory Experiment
Sloof, Randolph - 2014
This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708784
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Performance measurement, expectancy and agency theory : an experimental study
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006
for noisier performance measures. We conduct a real effort laboratory experiment and find that effort levels are invariant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343251
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Promotion Rules and Skill Acquisition : An Experimental Study
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2000
these two types of contract represents the trade-off between efficient investment and efficient job assignment. This paper … reports about an experiment designed to study this trade-off in practice. Results show some remarkable differences with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181277
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Illusion of Control and the Pursuit of Authority
Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, Ferdinand von - CESifo - 2014
In a laboratory experiment, we measure subjects’ willingness to pay for a transparently useless decision right …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764289