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A comparison of individual and group behavior in a competition with cheating opportunities
Dannenberg, Astrid; Khachatryan, Elina - 2020
While it is well established that individuals and groups make different economic decisions, the reasons for the behavioral differences are still not fully understood. We experimentally compare individual and group behavior in a competitive setting where cheating can be used to outperform the...
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Cournot Competition Between Teams : an Experimental Study
Raab, Philippe; Schipper, Burkhard C. - 2007
competition. Nevertheless, there are models of team-organization such that team-firms and individual firms are behaviorally …
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Prize Sharing Rules in Collective Contests : When Does Group Size Matter?
Gupta, Dhritiman - 2020
In this paper we deal with situations of collective contests between two groups over a private prize. A well known way to divide the prize within the winning group is the prize sharing rule introduced by Nitzan, 1991. Since its introduction it has become a standard in the collective contests...
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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments : an experimental study
Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007
reducing efforts. In our experiment we control the channels of communication by letting subjects communicate through an … efforts. We use team members' dialogues to explain these effects of communication, and check the robustness of our results. …We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals …
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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments : an experimental study
Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2007 - This version: 26 June 2007
. -- tournament ; team decision making ; communication ; collusion ; freeriding ;experiment … reducing efforts. In our experiment we control the channels of communication by letting subjects communicate through an … efforts. We use team members? dialogues to explain these effects of communication, and check the robustness of our results …
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Communication, Cooperation and Collusion in Team Tournaments - An Experimental Study
Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - 2008
reducing efforts. In our experiment we control the channels of communication by letting subjects communicate through an … efforts. We use team members' dialogues to explain these effects of communication, and check the robustness of our results …We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219102
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Tournaments for the Endogenous Allocating of Prizes within Workteams - Theory and Experimental Evidence
Sutter, Matthias - 2004
-order tournament. Team members compete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prize within the team. The … implementation of a proposal requires the approval of other team members. Failure to reach an agreement is costly and the role of … proposer rotates in the order of members' efforts. We show in an experiment that tournaments elicit higher efforts than random …
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Unethical behavior and group identity in contests
Bénistant, Julien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 72 (2019), pp. 128-155
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Sex hormones and competitive bidding
Schipper, Burkhard - 2012
We correlate competitive bidding and profits in symmetric independent private value first-price auctions with salivary testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol in more than 200 subjects. Females bid significantly higher and earn significantly lower profits than males. Moreover,...
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How Tournament Incentives Affect Asset Markets : A Comparison Between Winner-Take-All Tournaments and Elimination Contests
Fang, Dawei - 2016
We investigate the impact of fund managers' tournament incentives on investment strategies and market efficiency, distinguishing between winner-take-all tournaments (WTA), where a minority wins, and elimination contests (EC), where a majority wins. Theoretically, we show that fund managers play...
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