Search Results - "Nieken, Petra"

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Gender differences in sabotage: the role of uncertainty and beliefs

by Dato, Simon Published in Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic Science Association (2020)

“...We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender differences in performance in the real...”

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On the Choice of Risk and Effort in Tournaments—Experimental Evidence

by Nieken, Petra Published in Journal of economics & management strategy (Fall 2010)

“...We investigate a simple two‐person tournament in a controlled laboratory experiment. Each player chooses between two distributions of random shocks. After...”

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Gender differences in competition and sabotage

by Dato, Simon Nieken, Petra Published in Journal of economic behavior & organization (01.04.2014)

“...•Analysis of gender differences in a real effort two-player tournament in the lab.•No performance differences between males and females.•Males sabotage more...”

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Heterogeneous Contestants and the Intensity of Tournaments: An Empirical Investigation

by Berger, Johannes Nieken, Petra Published in Journal of sports economics (01.10.2016)

“...We empirically investigate whether tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intense. To test our hypotheses, we use professional sports data from...”

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Management Changes, Reputation, and “Big Bath”—Earnings Management

by Nieken, Petra Sliwka, Dirk Published in Journal of economics & management strategy (Fall 2015)

“...We study the effects of managerial turnover on earnings management activities in a model in which managers care about their external reputation. We develop an...”

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Risk-taking tournaments – Theory and experimental evidence

by Nieken, Petra Sliwka, Dirk Published in Journal of economic psychology (2010)

“...We study risk-taking behavior in a simple two person tournament in a theoretical model as well as a laboratory experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which...”

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Hidden benefits of reward: A field experiment on motivation and monetary incentives

by Kvaløy, Ola Nieken, Petra Schöttner, Anja Published in European economic review (01.05.2015)

“...We conducted a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its interaction with monetary incentives...”

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Relative performance pay in the shadow of crisis

by Kräkel, Matthias Nieken, Petra Published in European economic review (01.02.2015)

“...We analyze whether incentives from relative performance pay are reduced or enhanced if a department is possibly terminated due to a crisis. Our benchmark model...”

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Information Policy in Tournaments with Sabotage

by Oliver Gürtler Johannes Münster Petra Nieken Published in The Scandinavian journal of economics (01.07.2013)

“...Sabotage is one of the main problems of tournament-like reward schemes. Workers who are leading in a tournament are more dangerous rivals, and are therefore...”

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Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment

by Nieken, Petra Schmitz, Patrick W Published in Games and economic behavior (01.07.2012)

“...This paper reports data from a laboratory experiment on two-period moral hazard problems. The findings corroborate the contract-theoretic insight that even...”

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Social ties and subjective performance evaluations: an empirical investigation

by Breuer, Kathrin Breuer, Kathrin Nieken, Petra Nieken, Petra Sliwka, Dirk Sliwka, Dirk Published in Review of managerial science (01.03.2013)

“...We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer...”

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Lying and reciprocity

by Dato, Simon Feess, Eberhard Nieken, Petra Published in Games and economic behavior (01.11.2019)

“...We extend the literature on the determinants of lying to the impact of reciprocity in strategic interactions. We study a theoretical model with reciprocity by...”

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Risk taking and investing in electoral competition

by Kräkel, Matthias Nieken, Petra Przemeck, Judith Published in European Journal of Political Economy (01.03.2014)

“...We analyze a two-player electoral contest game between a challenger and an incumbent. First, the challenger decides whether to choose a high-risk campaign...”

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