24 Oct Diya Abraham: Rejection stings! How does being deliberately chosen to be (less or more) relevant affect performance? (MUES seminar) with Ondřej Krčál Previous literature has explored how agents respond to a signal of perceived distrust and shows that it lowers the agent’s motivation to act in the trustor’s (or principal’s) best interests.... from 2:30 PM
25 Oct Ralph Bayer: Delegation Based on Cheap Talk (MUES seminar) We study a real effort environment, where a delegator has to decide if and to whom to delegate a task. Delegating to a person who is better at the task increases welfare. Potential delegatees send cheap-talk... from 10:00 AM
31 Oct Marco Faravelli: Rank incentives and social learning: evidence from a randomized controlled trial (MUES seminar) In a 1-year randomized controlled trial involving thousands of university stu- dents, we provide real-time private feedback on relative performance in a semester-long on- line assignment. Within this setup,... from 11:00 AM