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Team incentives and leadership
Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2015
We study, experimentally, how two alternative incentive mechanisms affect team performance, and how a team chooses between alternative mechanisms. We study a group incentive mechanism, where team output is shared equally among team members, and a hierarchical mechanism team output is allocated...
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The dark side of the vote : biased voters, social information, and information aggregation through majority voting
Morton, Rebecca B.; Piovesan, Marco; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2013
We experimentally investigate information aggregation through majority voting when some voters are biased. In such situations, majority voting can have a "dark side", that is, result in groups making choices inferior to those made by individuals acting alone. In line with theoretical...
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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …
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Laboratory Test of a Non-Point Water Pollution Control Program : Monetary and Psychological Incentives
Pushkarskaya, Helen N. - 2014
This paper reports the results of laboratory test of the performance of a non-point source (NPS) water pollution abatement scheme suggested by Pushkarskaya and Randall (2006). The scheme is based on voluntary participation in the non-point source pollution control program, and ties individual...
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Giving According to Preferences : Decision-Making in the Group Dictator Game
Franzen, Axel - 2014
We study the decision process in a group dictator game in which three subjects can distribute an initial endowment between themselves and a group of recipients. The experiment consists of two stages: first, individuals play a standard dictator game. Second, individuals are randomly matched into...
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New Product Team Decision-Making : Regulatory Focus Effects on Number, Type and Timing Decisions
Spanjol, Jelena; Tam, Leona; Qualls, William J.; … - 2014
Company executives rely on new product development teams to carry out their directives and make decisions according to management’s goals and objectives. However, new product team members bring their own motivational perspectives to strategic decisions. This research examines how individual...
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Liquid Democracy : Two Experiments on Delegation in Voting
Campbell, Joseph; Casella, Alessandra; De Lara, Lucas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Under Liquid Democracy (LD), decisions are taken by referendum, but voters are allowed to delegate their votes to other voters. Theory shows that in common interest problems where experts are correctly identified, the outcome can be superior to simple majority voting. However, even when experts...
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Voting rules in multilateral bargaining: using an experiment to relax procedural assumptions
Tremewan, James; Vanberg, Christoph - 2018
Experiments can be used to relax technical assumptions that are made by necessity in theoretical analysis, and further test the robustness of theoretical predictions. To illustrate this point we conduct a three-person bargaining experiment examining the effect of different decision rules...
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Managing uncertainty : an experiment on delegation and team selection
Hamman, John R.; Martínez-Carrasco, Miguel A. - In: Organization science 34 (2023) 6, pp. 2272-2295
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career … three levels of transparency under which career concerns are predicted to affect behavior differently, and test the model …'s key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out - transparency negatively …
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