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Punishment fosters efficiency in the minimum effort coordination game
Le Lec, Fabrice; Matthey, Astrid; Rydval, Ondérej - 2012
Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a … efficiency. This suggests that decentralized monetary sanctions can play a major role as a coordination device in Pareto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291833
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Punishment fosters efficiency in the minimum effort coordination game
Le Lec, Fabrice; Matthey, Astrid; Rydval, Ondřej - 2012
Using a laboratory experiment, we examine whether informal monetary sanctions can lead to better coordination in a … efficiency. This suggests that decentralized monetary sanctions can play a major role as a coordination device in Pareto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567105
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What can the big five personality factors contributr to explain small-scale economic behavior?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722686
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Committing to incentives : should the decision to sanction be revealed or hidden?
Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - 2010
Sanctions are widely used to promote compliance in principal-agent-relationships. While there is ample evidence … confirming the predicted positive incentive effect of sanctions, it has also been shown that imposing sanctions may in fact … in case of low performance. -- Intrinsic Motivation ; Monetary Incentives ; Job Performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944178
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Affirmative action and team performance
Kölle, Felix - 2016
performance and the willingness to work in teams. In three different team environments, we find that such policies in form of … gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation within teams, and do not weaken people's willingness to work in teams …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588562
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A real-effort experiment on gift exchange with temptation
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2015
We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are tempted to surf the internet. Further, we investigate how an active policy of restricting the usage of the internet affects the workers' motivation. We observe that the temptation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529412
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Complex Tax Incentives - An Experimental Investigation
Abeler, Johannes - 2013
How does tax complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment in which subjects work for a piece rate and face taxes. One treatment features a simple, the other a complex tax system. The payoff-maximizing effort level and the incentives around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082004
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Complex Tax Incentives : An Experimental Investigation
Abeler, Johannes - 2013
How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082139
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Complex tax incentives : an experimental investigation
Abeler, Johannes; Jäger, Simon - 2013
How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740012
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Complex tax incentives : an experimental investigation
Abeler, Johannes; Jäger, Simon - 2013
How does tax complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment in which subjects work for a piece rate and face taxes. One treatment features a simple, the other a complex tax system. The payoff-maximizing effort level and the incentives around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742826