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How Much Influence does the Chinese State have Over CEOs and their Compensation? (2014)
Book Chapter
Bryson, A., Forth, J., & Zhou, M. (2014). How Much Influence does the Chinese State have Over CEOs and their Compensation?. In J. Ortega (Ed.), International perspectives on participation (1-23). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0885-333920140000015001

All that we know about the CEO labour market in China comes from studies of public listed companies and State-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper is the first to examine the operation of the CEO labour market across all industrial sectors of the Chi... Read More about How Much Influence does the Chinese State have Over CEOs and their Compensation?.

CEO Incentive Contracts in China: Why does City Location Matter? (2014)
Book Chapter
Bryson, A., Forth, J., & Zhou, M. (2014). CEO Incentive Contracts in China: Why does City Location Matter?. In J. Ortega (Ed.), International perspectives on participation (25-49). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0885-333920140000015009

CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We show that city and provincial policy experiments help explain this variance. We examine the role of two policy experiments: the use of... Read More about CEO Incentive Contracts in China: Why does City Location Matter?.

Promoting cooperation: the distribution of reward and punishment power (2014)
Book Chapter
Nosenzo, D., & Sefton, M. (2014). Promoting cooperation: the distribution of reward and punishment power. In P. A. Van Lange, B. Rockenbach, & T. Yamagishi (Eds.), Reward and punishment in social dilemmas. Oxford University Press

Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly examines decentralized incentive systems where all group members can reward and/or punish one another. Many self-organizing groups... Read More about Promoting cooperation: the distribution of reward and punishment power.

Postulates and paradoxes of voting power in a noncooperative setting (2014)
Book Chapter
Montero, M. (in press). Postulates and paradoxes of voting power in a noncooperative setting. In Voting Power and Procedures: Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05158-1

This paper discusses whether the equilibrium of a popular formal bargaining model due to Baron and Ferejohn (1989) satisfies the postulates that Felsenthal and Machover (1998) consider essential in any power measure. It is well known that the equilib... Read More about Postulates and paradoxes of voting power in a noncooperative setting.

Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order (2014)
Book Chapter
Gaechter, S. (2014). Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order. The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199945474.013.0002

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioral research on the role of human prosocial motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualized as a public goods game. Past attempts to explain social order typic... Read More about Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order.

Coöperatie in spelshows (2012)
Book Chapter
van den Assem, M. J., & van Dolder, D. (2012). Coöperatie in spelshows. In V. Buskens, & I. Maas (Eds.), Samenwerking in sociale dilemma's: voorbeelden van Nederlands onderzoek. Amsterdam University Press

In this chapter, we argue that game shows can be a useful source of data to study cooperative behavior. The unique combination of well-defined decision problems and large stakes makes game show data complementary to both experimental and field data.... Read More about Coöperatie in spelshows.