Showing 1 - 10 of 255
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776543
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001651016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002626658
Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at considerable cost. To examine the implications of agents who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452373
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002250784
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003428178
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496164
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647476
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhapswhen workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability andoutput in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect oftournaments is thin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862319
There is a large literature evaluating the dual process model of cognition, including the biases and heuristic it implies. To advance this literature, we focus on what triggers decision makers to switch from the intuitive process (aka System 1) to the more deliberative process (aka System 2)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351831