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Voluntary versus Enforced Team Effort

Games, 2011
We present a model where each of two players chooses between remuneration based on either private or team effort. Although at least one of the players has the equilibrium strategy to choose private remuneration, we frequently observe both players to ...
Claudia Keser, Claude Montmarquette
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Economic Behavior in the Face of Resource Variability and Uncertainty

Ecology and Society, 2011
Policy design is largely informed by the traditional economic viewpoint that humans behave rationally in the pursuit of their own economic welfare, with little consideration of other regarding behavior or reciprocal altruism.
Ryan R J. McAllister, John G. Tisdell, Andrew F. Reeson, Iain J. Gordon   +3 more
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The Choice of Fish Species: An Experiment Measuring the Impact of Risk and Benefit Information

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2008
An experiment was conducted in France to evaluate the impact of health information on consumer's choice. Fish have positive and negative health attributes, and we focus on fish species of diverging risk-benefit ratios. Successive messages revealing risks
Stephan Marette, Jutta Roosen, Sandrine Blanchemanche, Philippe Verger   +3 more
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The Effects of Group Identity on Pro-environmental Behavioral Norms in China: Evidence From an Experiment

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study experimentally evaluates the effects of group identity primed by property rights on pro-environmental behaviors (PEB) and social norms in an urban Chinese environment.
Qinjuan Wan, Qinjuan Wan, Hongping Deng, Hongping Deng   +3 more
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Remuneración a la fuerza de ventas: variables que determinan su éxito o fracaso. Remuneration of sales force: Variables that determine your success or failure.

Tec Empresarial, 2016
Resumen La remuneración a la fuerza de ventas es un tema fundamental en las organizaciones comerciales. ¿Qué tipo de incentivos incrementan el esfuerzo del vendedor para lograr las metas de la organización?
Federico Torres Carballo, Haydeé Tiffer Sotomayor, Yarima Sandoval Sánchez   +2 more
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Ekonomia behawioralna jako nowy nurt ekonomii – zarys problematyki

Studia i Materiały, 2015
Behavioural economics is a fast developing field in modern economics and is associated with empirical and experimental studies. A distinct characteristic of behavioural economics is its multidisciplinary nature.
Tomasz Zalega
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Comparing behavioral risk assessment strategies for quantifying biosecurity compliance to mitigate animal disease spread

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Understanding the impact of human behavior on the spread of disease is critical in mitigating outbreak severity. We designed an experimental game that emulated worker decision-making in a swine facility during an outbreak.
Eric M. Clark, Eric M. Clark, Scott C. Merrill, Scott C. Merrill, Scott C. Merrill, Luke Trinity, Luke Trinity, Tung-Lin Liu, Aislinn O'Keefe, Trisha Shrum, Trisha Shrum, Gabriela Bucini, Gabriela Bucini, Nicholas Cheney, Nicholas Cheney, Ollin D. Langle-Chimal, Ollin D. Langle-Chimal, Christopher Koliba, Christopher Koliba, Christopher Koliba, Asim Zia, Asim Zia, Asim Zia, Julia M. Smith, Julia M. Smith   +24 more
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The Agentic Perspective in Experimental Economics

Games
Mainstream experimental economics is characterized by its focus on theory testing and “treatment effects” on aggregate outcomes. The “agentic” alternative is concerned with the econometric specification of individual behavior.
Arturo Macías
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Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp, Eszter Kozák, Natália Tőkési, Lilian Kocsis, Anikó Kelemen, Zsuzsanna Geszti, Adriána Kutás, Mariann Harangi, Ágnes Diószegi, Zsolt Rapi, József Balla, Olivier Le Saux, András Váradi, Viola Pomozi   +13 more
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Experimental economics: science or what? [PDF]

, 2007
Do we want experimental economics to evolve into a genuine science? This paper uses the literature on inequity aversion as a case study in warning that we are at risk of losing the respect of other scientific disciplines if we continue to accept the ...
Binmore, K., Shaked, A.
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