IZA Discussion Papers

published in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, and G. van Houten (Eds.) Workplace Productivity and Management Practices, Research in Labor Economics, 49, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2021, 79-205.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9158

Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9041

Combining 'Real Effort' with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task

Simon Gächter, Lingbo Huang, Martin Sefton

revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2016, 19, 687–712

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8762

Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships: Experimental Evidence

Marco Kleine, Sebastian Kube

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8761

Cooperation in Diverse Teams: The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Kirsten Thommes

considerably shortened version published as 'Public Good Provision in Blended Groups of Partners and Strangers' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 134, 41-44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8707

Helping in Teams

Anastasia Danilov, Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch

revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8444

Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams

David Gill, Rebecca Stone

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 123, 42-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8237

Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8237

Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8217

Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

Haoran He, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Are group members less inequality averse than individual decision makers?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 138, 111-124.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8105

Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies

Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19 (4), 562-582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7869

Profit Sharing and Workplace Productivity: Does Teamwork Play a Role?

Richard J. Long, Tony Fang

published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2021, 76 (1), 90-114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7523

Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed

Sotiris Georganas, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 223-232.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7519

Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2015, 16 (5) 482-507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7284

Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time

Ulrich Kaiser, Bettina Müller

published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 45 (4), 787-804

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044

Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6884

The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity

Sandra Hentschel, Gerd Muehlheusser, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6747

Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay

Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey, Thibaud Vergé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6747

Team Structure and the Effectiveness of Collective Performance Pay

Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey, Thibaud Vergé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6738

Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F117 - F141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6731

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Mirjam C. van Praag

revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6715

Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Amanda H. Goodall, Ganna Pogrebna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6635

Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, Julie M. Wulf

published in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (4), 824–844

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6286

Whom to Choose as a Team Mate? A Lab Experiment about In-Group Favouritism

Andrea Hammermann, Alwine Mohnen, Petra Nieken

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2014, 8(3), 327–350

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6279

Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1079-1114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6279

Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1079-1114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5968

Lying and Team Incentives

Julian Conrads, Bernd Irlenbusch, Rainer Michael Rilke, Gari Walkowitz

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 34, 1-7

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5892

Role Selection and Team Performance

David J. Cooper, Matthias Sutter

published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59(3), 1547-1569.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5892

Role Selection and Team Performance

David J. Cooper, Matthias Sutter

published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59(3), 1547-1569.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5624

Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(579), 917–953

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5618

Incentives and Cooperation in Firms: Field Evidence

Johannes Berger, Claus Herbertz, Dirk Sliwka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5501

Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams

Esteban F. Klor, Sebastian Kube, Eyal Winter, Ro'i Zultan

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5111

The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans: Evidence from Korean Panel Data

Takao Kato, Ju Ho Lee, Jang-Soo Ryu

published in: Tor Eriksson (ed.), Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms Volume 11, Bingley: Emerald, 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5105

Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals

Boris Maciejovsky, Matthias Sutter, David V. Budescu, Patrick Bernau

revised version published as 'Teams make you smarter: How exposure to teams improves individual decisions in probability and reasoning tasks' in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (6), 1255-1270

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5104

Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Olga Nottmeyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4970

Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the "Dying Seconds" of International Football Matches

Jan C. van Ours, Martin A. van Tuijl

published in: International Journal of Sport Finance, 2011, 6 (2), 138-154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4955

Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions

Loukas Balafoutas, Matthias Sutter

shortened version published as 'Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the lab' in: Science, 2012, 335 (6068), 579-582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4913

Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation

Kathrin Breuer, Petra Nieken, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2013, 7 (2), 141-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4732

Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games

Matthias Sutter, Simon Czermak, Francesco Feri

revised version published as 'Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams. Experimental evidence' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 395-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4507

Two Heads Are Less Bubbly than One: Team Decision-Making in an Experimental Asset Market

Stephen L. Cheung, Stefan Palan

revised version published in Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (3), 373-397

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4039

Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns

Alexander K. Koch, Albrecht Morgenstern

published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Topics in Theoretical Economics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 10

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3959

Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Sebastian J. Goerg, Sebastian Kube, Ro'i Zultan

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 747 - 772

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3881

Worker Self-Selection and the Profits from Cooperation

Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 573 - 582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3741

Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence

Francesco Feri, Bernd Irlenbusch, Matthias Sutter

revised and extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (4), 1892-1912

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3429

The Effect of Intragroup Communication on Preference Shifts in Groups

Michael P. Brady, Steven Y. Wu

published as "The aggregation of preferences in groups: Identity, responsibility, and polarization" in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31(6), 950-963

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3281

Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence

Alwine Mohnen, Kathrin Pokorny, Dirk Sliwka

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 26 (4), 2008, 693 - 720

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3143

Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Guido Friebel, Wendelin Schnedler

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (1-2), 1-13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3105

Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence from New Japanese Data

Takao Kato, Hideo Owan

published as 'Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Theory and evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 80 (3), 375-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3096

Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball

Eric D. Gould, Eyal Winter

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1), 188–200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2917

The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime: An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (2), 215-240

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2423

Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation

Bernd Irlenbusch, Gabriele K. Ruchala

published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167