Tinbergen Institute / Economics of Governance
Conference
Human Relations, Reciprocity, and Incentives in the Workplace
Rotterdam, 5 & 6 December 2008
Venue: Erasmus University, Woudestein campus, Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Friday: G-building, room G3-41
Saturday: T-building, room T3-06
Friday, 5 December 2008
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Welcome and introduction
9:30-10:15 Frank Cörvers (University of Maastricht), THOMAS DOHMEN (University of Maastricht), Andries de Grip (University of Maastricht), and Raymond Montizaan (University of Maastricht), Job motivation and reciprocity: Evidence from a natural experiment
Discussant: FLORIAN ENGLMAIER
10:15-11:00 Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics), IWAN BARANKAY (University of Pennsylvania), and Imran Rasul (University College London), Monetary and Non-Monetary Incentives for Teams: Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Discussant: ALAIN COHN
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Antoni Cunyat (University of Valencia) and RANDOLPH SLOOF (University of Amsterdam), Employee types and endogenous organizational design: An experiment
Discussant: CHRISTIAN GRUND
12:15-13:00 Robert Dur (Erasmus University), ARJAN NON (Erasmus University), and Hein Roelfsema (Utrecht University), Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
Discussant: DIRK SLIWKA
13:00-14:30 Lunch in Restaurant Siena, H-Building, floor B, near the main elevators.
14:30-15:15 Sebastian Kube (Max Planck Institute), MICHEL ANDRÉ MARÉCHAL (University of Zurich), and Clemens Puppe (University of Karlsruhe), The Currency of Reciprocity - Gift-Exchange in the Workplace
Discussant: JOERI SOL
15:15-16:00 SABRINA TEYSSIER (University of Lyon), Experimental Evidence on Inequity Aversion and Self-Selection between Incentive Contracts
Discussant: TOPI MIETTINEN
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:15 Michael Kosfeld (University of Frankfurt) and SUSANNE NECKERMANN (University of Zurich), Working for Nothing? The Effect of Non-Material Awards on Employee Performance
Discussant: STEFFEN ALTMANN
19:30 Dinner in Restaurant Smaak
Saturday, 6 December 2008
9:00 Coffee
9:30-10:15 CHRISTIAN GRUND (University of Wuerzburg) and Judith Przemeck (University of Bonn), Subjective Performance Evaluation and Inequality Aversion
Discussant: ARJAN NON
10:15-11:00 ALAIN COHN (Univeristy of Zurich), Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich), and Lorenz Goette (Federal Reserve Boston), Fairness and Effort - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Discussant: SUSANNE NECKERMANN
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Robert Dur (Erasmus University) and JOERI SOL (Erasmus University), Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Discussant: IWAN BARANKAY
12:00-12:45 FLORIAN ENGLMAIER (University of Munich) and Stephen Leider (Harvard University), Gift Exchange in the Lab and in the Field - It is not (only) how much you give ...
Discussant: MICHEL ANDRÉ MARÉCHAL
12:45-14:00 Lunch, location tba.
14:00-14:45 TOPI MIETTINEN (Stockholm School of Economics), Contracts and Promises - An Approach to Pre-play Agreements
Discussant: RANDOLPH SLOOF
14:45-15:30 Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne), DIRK SLIWKA (University of Cologne), and Peter Werner (University of Cologne), Social Comparison, Reference Points and Bonus Payments – Field Evidence
Discussant: THOMAS DOHMEN
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:30 STEFFEN ALTMANN (University of Bonn), Armin Falk (University of Bonn), and David Huffman (Swarthmore College), Contract Enforcement, Fairness, and Involuntary Unemployment
Discussant: SABRINA TEYSSIER
Saturday evening: Drinks in city center Rotterdam
Participation is free, but space is limited. Please contact:
Robert Dur
E-mail: dur@few.eur.nl
Phone: +31-10-4082159
Cell phone: +31-6-40485405
Fax: +31-10-4089161
The conference is sponsored by the Tinbergen Institute.