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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments: An Experiment in a Company

Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using a sample of managers and employees from a...

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"Let Them Eat Cake": Drought, Peasant Uprisings, and Demand for Institutional Change in the French Revolution

Waldinger, Maria - 2023

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...

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Intrinsic Preferences for Autonomy

Freundt, Jana; Herz, Holger; Kopp, Leander - 2023

socioeconomic characteristics. Finally, we test their association with other preferences, attitudes and beliefs. …

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The cost of a divided America: an experimental study into destructive behavior

Mill, Wladislaw; Morgan, John - In: Experimental Economics 25 (2021) 3, pp. 974-1001

Does political polarization lead to dysfunctional behavior? To study this question, we investigate the attitudes of … supporters of Donald Trump and of Hillary Clinton towards each other and how these attitudes affect spiteful behavior. We find … that both Trump and Clinton supporters display less positive attitudes towards the opposing supporters compared to …

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Cash, non-cash, or mix? Gender matters! The impact of monetary, non-monetary, and mixed incentives on performance

Sittenthaler, Hanna M.; Mohnen, Alwine - In: Journal of Business Economics 90 (2020) 8, pp. 1253-1284

study employs a real effort experiment to analyze the impact of monetary, non-monetary, and a combination of monetary and …

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In-group favoritism and discrimination among multiple out-groups

Grimm, Veronika; Utikal, Verena; Valmasoni, Lorenzo - 2015

multiple out-groups. In a laboratory experiment, we use dictator games for five groups to compare actual transfers to in …

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Revealed Incomplete Preferences under Uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2015

The completeness axiom of choice has been questioned for long, and in response, theoretical models of decision making allowing for incomplete preferences have been developed. So far the theoretical accomplishments have however not been paired with empirical evidence on the actual existence of...

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

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