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Pledging, praising and shaming : experimental labour markets in Ghana
Davies, Elwyn; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017
research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607573
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Fairness and motivation : fair treatment creates incentives, and is beneficial for workers and the frim
Falk, Armin - 2014
incentives - "Pay them more and they will work harder." However, a large and growing body of empirical evidence from laboratory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413663
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Chapter 56 Values of games with infinitely many players
Neyman, Abraham - In: Handbook of game theory with economic applications : …, (pp. 2121-2167). 2002
This chapter studies the theory of value of games with infinitely many players.Games with infinitely many players are models of interactions with many players. Often most of the players are individually insignificant, and are effective in the game only via coalitions. At the same time there may...
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The Ex Ante Incentive Compatible Core in Exchange Economies With and Without Indivisibilities
Forges, Francoise - 2021
The ex ante incentive compatible core of an exchange economy with private information is the (standard) core of a … incentive compatible core can be empty, even if utility functions are quasi-linear. If, in addition to quasi-linearity, further … assumptions are made (like independent private values), the non-emptiness of the core follows nevertheless from d'Aspremont and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317636
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Teams as superstars : effort and risk taking in rank-order tournaments for women and men
Lackner, Mario - 2016
This article analyzes top-level basketball competitions and measures the effect of superstar presence on effort provision in rank-order tournaments. I extend the previous literature to team competitions for male and female teams, as well as different institutional settings over a long period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570793
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Experimental Evidence on Inequity Aversion and Self-Selection between Incentive Contracts
Teyssier, Sabrina - 2008
This paper reports on the results of an experiment testing whether the agents selfselect between a competitive payment scheme and a revenue-sharing scheme depending on their inequity aversion. Average efficiency should be increased when these payment schemes are endogenously chosen by agents. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216314
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011
In this paper, we investigate individuals’ investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their relative position...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186505
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Optimal Group Incentives with Social Preferences and Self-Selection
Teyssier, Sabrina - 2010
In this paper, we analyze group incentives when a proportion of agents feel in- equity aversion as defined by Fehr and … show that a tournament provides strong incentives to agents who only care about their own payoff but that it is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050416
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary - 2010
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141233
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive : Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary - 2010
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141393