Harmful transparency in teams

In a two-player team project with efforts over two rounds, we demonstrate that observability of peer efforts can be strictly harmful if preferences are utilitarian. This contrasts with Mohnen et al. (2000) who show in a similar setting that observability of interim efforts induces more efforts, if t...

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Main Authors: BAG, Parimal, PEPITO, Nona
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soe_research-33182023-10-19T00:36:11Z Harmful transparency in teams BAG, Parimal PEPITO, Nona In a two-player team project with efforts over two rounds, we demonstrate that observability of peer efforts can be strictly harmful if preferences are utilitarian. This contrasts with Mohnen et al. (2000) who show in a similar setting that observability of interim efforts induces more efforts, if team members are inequity-averse. 2016-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2319 info:doi/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.05.005 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3318/viewcontent/EL39857_finalversion.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Economics eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University transparency team perfect substitution free-riding Behavioral Economics
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topic transparency
team
perfect substitution
free-riding
Behavioral Economics
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team
perfect substitution
free-riding
Behavioral Economics
BAG, Parimal
PEPITO, Nona
Harmful transparency in teams
description In a two-player team project with efforts over two rounds, we demonstrate that observability of peer efforts can be strictly harmful if preferences are utilitarian. This contrasts with Mohnen et al. (2000) who show in a similar setting that observability of interim efforts induces more efforts, if team members are inequity-averse.
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author BAG, Parimal
PEPITO, Nona
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title Harmful transparency in teams
title_short Harmful transparency in teams
title_full Harmful transparency in teams
title_fullStr Harmful transparency in teams
title_full_unstemmed Harmful transparency in teams
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2016
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2319
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3318/viewcontent/EL39857_finalversion.pdf
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