Harmful transparency in teams

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2016
Volume: 144
Issue: C
Pages: 88-91

Authors (2)

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0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

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Abstract

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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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:144:y:2016:i:c:p:88-91
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
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2026-01-24