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favor and against this assumption and test in our own experiment, whether and which personality factors are useful in …Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be …
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favor and against this assumption and test in our own experiment, whether and which personality factors are useful in …Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256055
and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experiment aimed at determining the … relative importance of intentions and incentives in producing non-cooperative behavior in a personal exchange environment …
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We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect … dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489594
We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect … dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438251
the theoretical benchmark with behavior observed in a one-shot experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997551
We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may differ in competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician's policy proposals are attractive to the minority of rich agents, whereas those of the...
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beliefs in addition to payments for other decisions. Such incentives, however, allow risk-averse subjects to hedge with their … stated beliefs against adverse outcomes of other decisions in the experiment. This raises two questions: (i) can we trust the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719630
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459389
This paper reports the results from a large-scale laboratory experiment investigating the impact of tournament … incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479746