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Schuette, Miriam; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2012

This paper considers the eff ects of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages...

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Delegation in Long-Term Relationships

Schütte, Miriam; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2014

This paper considers the effects of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165946

Delegation in long-term relationships

Schütte, Miriam; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2012

This paper considers the e effcts of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615156

Collective Incentives and Cooperation with Imperfect Monitoring

Mengel, Friederike; Weidenholzer, Simon; Mohlin, Erik - 2021

We experimentally explore the role of collective incentives in sustaining cooperation in finitely repeated public goods … in case total output falls short of a target. We fi nd that cooperation is higher in the case of collective punishment … the positive effect of collective incentives on cooperation …

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Who Cooperates? Reciprocity and the Causal Effect of Expected Cooperation in Representative Samples

Bechtel, Michael M.; Scheve, Kenneth - 2017

correlate with expectations about cooperation by others among students and other demographic subgroups. However, we lack … knowledge about whether the effect of expected cooperation is causal and a general feature of populations. We fielded … a novel between-subjects experiment. The experiment varied expectations about cooperation by others. We find that higher …

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A dynamic life cycle model for Germany with unemployment uncertainty

Biewald, Anne - 2008

This work analyzes the saving and consumption behavior of agents faced with the possibility of unemployment in a dynamic and stochastic life cycle model. The intertemporal optimization is based on Dynamic Programming with a backward recursion algorithm.The implemented uncertainty is not based on...

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Asymptotic income distribution in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) : income inequality and Darwinian fitness

Montano, Diego - 2011

In this paper, the relation between income inequality and population growth is analized from a Darwinian perspective. A Markov chain population growth model is presented and estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We estimate both population growth rates and...

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Is there a fade-away effect of initial nonresponse bias in EU-SILC?

Rendtel, Ulrich - 2015

Nonresponse in surveys may result in a distortion of the distribution of interest. In a panel survey the participation behavior in later waves is different from the participation behavior at the start. With register data that cover also the information for non-respondents one can observe a fade...

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The fade away of an initial bias in longitudinal surveys

Alho, Juha M.; Müller, Gerrit; Pflieger, Verena; … - 2017

We propose a new view of initial nonresponse bias in longitudinal surveys. Under certain conditions, an initial bias may "fade-away" over consecutive waves. This effect is discussed in a Markovian framework. A general contraction theorem for time inhomogeneous Markov chains is presented. The...

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More opportunity, more cooperation? : the behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth

Felfe, Christina; Kocher, Martin; Rainer, Helmut; … - 2021

the scope of cooperation between individuals. A central question, then, is how to overcome such obstacles to cooperation … the increase in out-group cooperation among immigrant boys is an outcome of more trust rather than a reflection of …

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