Rewards and punishments: Informal contracting through social preferences

S Chassang, C Zehnder - Theoretical Economics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… fully contingent contracts is simply too complicated. We show that social preferences impose
… of informal incentives such as relational contracts.These restrictions have novel implications …

Optimal contract under asymmetric information about fairness

V Pavlov, E Katok, W Zhang - Manufacturing & Service …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
… finding of experimental studies testing such contracts is that … on social preferences with
the research on supply chain … of incomplete information are an important cause of contract in…

Contracting under asymmetric information and externalities: an experimental study

P Nieken, PW Schmitz - Experimental Economics, 2023 - Springer
… different forms of communication in ultimatum bargaining with incomplete information. Note
… Our finding is in line with some other studies exploring the role of social preferences when …

Contracts and trust: complements or substitutes?

BC Mccannon, CT Asaad, M Wilson - Journal of Institutional …, 2018 - cambridge.org
social preferences from both a Trust Game and a social values survey, using them as explanatory
variables in a Contract Game. … Since in the experimental design each subject makes a …

Incomplete contracts and control

O Hart - American Economic Review, 2017 - pubs.aeaweb.org
… problem in complete contracting terms. But what if the contract between the buyer and seller
is incomplete? … Given that the contract is incomplete, the coal mine may be within its rights …

Contract design with socially attentive preferences

S Koch, P Weinschenk - Games and Economic Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
… In this section, we analyze the principal's problem when she does not know the agent's
social preferences. We thus let the agent's type β be the agent's private information. This …

Social networks as contract enforcement: Evidence from a lab experiment in the field

AG Chandrasekhar, C Kinnan… - … Economic Journal: Applied …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
contracting environments changes with social distance, which is one of the main goals of our
experimental design… , ambiguity aversion, or incomplete information about whether partners …

Investing in communication: An experimental study of communication in a relational contract setting

SR Skorbiansky - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
… This work is related to previous experimental studies that compared cheap talk to … This
study adds to this literature by analyzing a more complex contracting structure in an infinite-time …

Identification, signaling and exploitation of social preferences: An experimental analysis

TTT Vu - 2019 - eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it
… In Chapter 3, I report an experimental study on the strategic … We compare workers’ effort,
employers’ contract choice and … and the incomplete information about preference characteristics…

How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods

R Kerschbamer, M Sutter, U Dulleck - The Economic Journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… conduct new experiments that allow for parsimonious identification of sellers’ social preference
types. Our results confirm the assumed heterogeneity in social preferences and provide …