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Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments

Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2006

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …

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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2010

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare ? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …

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The Ratio Bias Phenomenon : Fact or Artifact ?

Lefebvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand; Villeval, … - HAL - 2011

valuation tasks. Also, adding context to the decision problem does not change this outcome. No ratio bias could be found in …

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Performance Pay, Sorting and Social Motivation

Eriksson, Tor; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2008

Variable pay links pay and performance but may also help firms in attracting more productive employees. Our experiment …

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Effort and Comparison Income : Survey and Experimental Evidence

Clark, Andrew; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2006

This paper combines ISSP survey data and experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game to determine the effect of status or relative income on work effort. We find a strong effect of others' incomes on individual effort decisions in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

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Cheating, Emotions, and Rationality: An Experiment on Tax Evasion

Coricelli, Giorgio; Joffily, Matteus; Montmarquette, Claude - HAL - 2010

investigate the relationships between emotions, deception, and rational decision-making by means of an experiment on tax evasion … anticipatory emotions before reporting positively correlates with both the decision to cheat and the proportion of evaded income …

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Respect as an Incentive

Eriksson, Tor; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2010

-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees' further effort …

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