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We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different … tournament contract incorporating both incentives at the top and at the bottom induces the highest effort, especially in larger …
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Managers often use tournament incentive schemes which motivate workers to compete for the top, compete to avoid the … levels for three tournament incentive schemes: reward tournaments, punishment tournaments, and tournaments combining reward … and punishment. We test the model s predictions in a laboratory experiment and find that the combination of reward and …
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works in anindividual decision experiment. Subjects are faced with a sequentialsearch problem. After extensive practice …
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We study experimentally whether heterogeneity of behavior in the Centipede game can be interpreted as the result of a learning process of individuals with different preference types (more and less pro-social) and coarse information regarding the opponent's past behavior. We manipulate the...
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Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often...
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experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …
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experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607585
experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607807
experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607969
Overbidding in second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use...
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