We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …-strategic uncertainty and for beliefs on others' competitiveness and ability. Social image matters, as evidenced by the fact that seniors …

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …-strategic uncertainty and for beliefs on others' competitiveness and ability. Social image matters, as evidenced by the fact that seniors …

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …

in performance. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether allowing subjects to self-select into …

be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to … identity that favors positive rivalry but discourages sabotage among peers …

be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to … identity favors positive rivalry and discourages sabotage among peers …

be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to … identity favors positive rivalry and discourages sabotage among …

We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a …