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Pledging, praising and shaming : experimental labour markets in Ghana
Davies, Elwyn; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017
research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607573
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Fairness and motivation : fair treatment creates incentives, and is beneficial for workers and the frim
Falk, Armin - 2014
incentives - "Pay them more and they will work harder." However, a large and growing body of empirical evidence from laboratory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413663
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The Ex Ante Incentive Compatible Core in Exchange Economies With and Without Indivisibilities
Forges, Francoise - 2021
The ex ante incentive compatible core of an exchange economy with private information is the (standard) core of a … incentive compatible core can be empty, even if utility functions are quasi-linear. If, in addition to quasi-linearity, further … assumptions are made (like independent private values), the non-emptiness of the core follows nevertheless from d'Aspremont and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317636
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Teams as superstars : effort and risk taking in rank-order tournaments for women and men
Lackner, Mario - 2016
This article analyzes top-level basketball competitions and measures the effect of superstar presence on effort provision in rank-order tournaments. I extend the previous literature to team competitions for male and female teams, as well as different institutional settings over a long period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570793
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Experimental Evidence on Inequity Aversion and Self-Selection between Incentive Contracts
Teyssier, Sabrina - 2008
This paper reports on the results of an experiment testing whether the agents selfselect between a competitive payment scheme and a revenue-sharing scheme depending on their inequity aversion. Average efficiency should be increased when these payment schemes are endogenously chosen by agents. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216314
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Optimal Group Incentives with Social Preferences and Self-Selection
Teyssier, Sabrina - 2010
In this paper, we analyze group incentives when a proportion of agents feel in- equity aversion as defined by Fehr and … show that a tournament provides strong incentives to agents who only care about their own payoff but that it is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050416
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011
In this paper, we investigate individuals’ investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their relative position...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186505
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary - 2010
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141233
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary - 2010
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141393
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Egalitarianism in Nontransferable Utility Games
Dietzenbacher, Bas - 2017
of coalitions are explicitly taken into account. We formulate conditions under which it leads to a core element and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957744