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Other-regarding preferences and incentives in the societal context
Bental, Benjamin; Kragl, Jenny - 2020
The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of other-regarding preferences affect incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421506
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Willingness to pay attention for others : do social preferences predict attentional contribution?
Rafai, Ismael; Toumi, Mira - In: Revue d'économie politique 128 (2018) 5, pp. 849-881
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266625
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Aligning mission preferences : does self-selection foster performance in working groups?
Baethge, Caroline; Fiedler, Marina - 2016
-selection, incentives and performance is based on a weak-link game devised by van Huyck et al. (1990). This is the optimal tool to … performance process within working groups. The literature on the sorting effect of incentives focuses almost exclusively on the … have an impact on the matching of employees and organizations and therefore the effectiveness of incentives. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848743
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Preference reversals : the impact of truth-revealing monetary incentives
Berg, Joyce E.; Dickhaut, John W.; Rietz, Thomas A. - In: Games and economic behavior 68 (2010) 2, pp. 443-468
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Peer effects and incentives
Kräkel, Matthias - 2014
influence agents incentives and lead to a noncooperative game, even if the agents have to complete independent tasks. I show … substitutes. I solve for the optimal monetary incentives that complement the peer effects and show that the principal prefers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430294
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Expanding the udge : designing choice contexts and choice contents
Grill, Kalle - 2014
To nudge is to design choice contexts in order to improve choice outcomes. Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein emphatically endorse nudging but reject more restrictive means. In contrast, I argue that the behavioral psychology that motivates nudging also motivates what may be called jolting—i.e....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488390
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How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2015 - This Version: February 2015
Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the quality received, experimental evidence...
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Incentives and preference reversals : escape moves and community decisions in experimental economics
Tammi, Timo - In: The journal of economic methodology 6 (1999) 3, pp. 351-380
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Constrained preference elicitation
Azrieli, Yaron; Chambers, Christopher P.; Healy, Paul J. - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 2, pp. 507-538
A planner wants to elicit information about an agent's preference relation, but not the entire ordering. Specifically, preferences are grouped into "types", and the planner only wants to elicit the agent's type. We first assume beliefs about randomization are subjective, and show that a space of...
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Prince : an improved method for measuring incentivized preferences
Johnson, Cathleen; Baillon, Aurélien; Bleichrodt, Han; … - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty 62 (2021) 1, pp. 1-28
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