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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669188
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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799081
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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects eithervote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011596
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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - In: European economic review : EER 60 (2013), pp. 32-51
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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010 - This version: 09/16/2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737083
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Teams make you smarter : how exposure to teams improves individual decisions in probability and reasoning tasks
Maciejovsky, Boris; Sutter, Matthias; Budescu, David V.; … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 59 (2013) 6, pp. 1255-1270
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The intrinsic value of decision rights : a note on team vs individual decision-making
Buffat, Justin; Praxmarer, Matthias; Sutter, Matthias - 2020 - This version: December 12, 2020
Team decision-making prevails in modern organizations. Teams often need to decide whether to delegate or make a … decision themselves. Recent work has found that many individuals assign a significantly positive intrinsic value to having a … decision right, which may distort the choice between delegating a decision or not. Here we examine experimentally whether teams …
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The role of social cues and social reference points in economic decision-making
Praxmarer, Matthias - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103947
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The intrinsic value of decision rights : a replication and an extension to team decision making
Buffat, Justin; Praxmarer, Matthias; Sutter, Matthias - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 209 (2023), pp. 560-571
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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
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