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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Real-Effort"”.
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Overconfidence and Contracts : An Experiment
… affects the choice over contracts in a real-effort task by using three different measures of overconfidence: miscalibration, illusion of control, and overplacement. We find that overplacement, which is the only measure related to the task, has a significant effect on the choice over …
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Agents’ Performance and Emotions: An Experimental Investigation
… and pressure can induce agents to exert more effort, according to theories of anxiety in psychology. The negative valence associated to this emotion might propose an impairment in performance. On the contrary, the laboratory economic experiment I have run shows that when an anxious mood is …
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Essays on Economic Inequality and Social Capital
… were generated either by performance in a real-effort task (merit) or by random chance (luck). Participants then make decisions in three canonical games: the trust game, the stag-hunt game, and the prisoner’s dilemma. The results show that inequality weakens trustworthiness and coordination …
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Essays in Discrimination, Informational Preferences, and Social Preferences Under Uncertainty
… Sunk Cost in Performance Beliefs We test whether real-effort costs influence how people update beliefs about their performance. We find that paying a cost to observe feedback alters belief adjustments, but is quite sensitive to informational quality. When feedback is highly accurate, …
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Assessment of the implementation of business processe-rengineering in the public sector in Ethiopia: the cases of the ministry of trade and industry and the ministry of works and urban development
… of political reform, or whether it is a real effort to bring about changes in the way the public sector conducts its business. From its wide application in the country, two varying sectors have been chosen for this analysis. One is a service-giving institution in the Ministry of Trade and …
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Reducing duration in new product development through project design models with real world constraints including portfolio planning
… increase in demand for coordination, which is a real effort with real costs. Organizations face the challenge of making good forecasts that can include these real world execution issues through their project plans. Can project plans that include these in their planning forecast outcomes better? …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Philanthropy
… set goals for themselves engaging in real effort tasks. Participants obtain prosocial rewards only when they reach their goals. My results show that workers who receive prosocial incentives improve their performance by setting higher goals and achieving them. Moreover, when provided …
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Using laboratory experiments to study otherwise unobservable labor market interactions
… from standard theory to actual outcome in the real world. Our experiments can even provide valuable information on how people behave in situations where existing theory provides little or no guide to what should happen.</p> <p>In our first experiment, we study the impact of specific incentive …
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Three Essays in Experimental Economics
… are prevalent throughout a wide variety of real-world contexts; what causes a person to favor one over the other? We conduct an experiment in which we observe fully informed subjects switching between the Hot Hand and Gambler's Fallacies when predicting future outcomes of mathematically …
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Corporate governance and financial performance of Sri Lankan listed companies 2006-2010
… systems used to control and direct companies. A real effort to codify the principle of corporate governance in a structured manner in Sri Lanka was made in 1996. Since the financial year commencing April 2008, Sri Lankan listed firms have been subject to mandated rules on corporate governance by …
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The lateral and vertical limits of a hypothetical Republic of South Africa continental shelf according with international law and, in particular, Articles 76, 83 and 84 of the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (1982)
… have been in recent times, as a result of the efforts of coastal States to control the newly discovered potential of the seabed, and in particular, the continental shelf. As technology improves, the possibility of exploiting sea-bed resources will extend further and further seawards to the …
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Essays on Social Influences in Decision Making
This dissertation reports a series of studies on social influences in decision making with wide ranging marketing implications in areas such as gamification initiatives, participative pricing mechanisms, and charity fundraising strategies. The body of this work comprises of three indepth, …
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Self-selection and peer-effects in experimental labor markets
… about their expected relative performance in a real-effort task using an incentive-compatible mechanism for belief elicitation. We then combined these self-confidence measures with a unique dataset on the social network of the participants to investigate whether there are peer effects in …