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Voluntary versus Enforced Team Effort
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
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+3 more
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The Choice of Fish Species: An Experiment Measuring the Impact of Risk and Benefit Information
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+3 more
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Experimental Labour Economics [PDF]
Scientific progress relies on testing theories. In labour economics different data sources are available for performing such tests. An important distinction is between circumstantial data and experimental or questionnaire data. Circumstantial data is the by-product of uncontrolled, naturally occurring economic activity.
Simon Gächter, Armin Falk
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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+2 more
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Ekonomia behawioralna jako nowy nurt ekonomii – zarys problematyki
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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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+24 more
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Measures ensuring the food quality on retail markets: experimental perspective
Due to the ongoing problems with the quality of foods in European markets, the public authorities try to take some measures, which would reduce the amount of substandard food products offered to consumers in retailing.
Martin POLÍVKA, David MARTINČÍK
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Sharing as risk pooling in a social dilemma experiment
In rural economies with missing or incomplete markets, idiosyncratic risk is frequently pooled through informal networks. Idiosyncratic shocks, however, are not limited to private goods but can also restrict an individual from partaking in or benefiting ...
Todd L. Cherry+2 more
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Economic Theory and Experimental Economics [PDF]
This paper explores the questions of how economic theory can be used to design and interpret experiments and how experimental results can be used to construct and interpret economic theories. The relationship between economic theory and experiments is modeled and illustrated with examples from both theoretical and experimental work. The emphasis is on
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