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Université de Fribourg

Intergenerational Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition : a Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madiès, Thierry ; Villeval, Marie Claire ; Wasmer, Malgorzata

In: European Economic Review, 2013, vol. 61, p. 153-168

With a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999), we study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition. Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when the market capacity is not too low or when earnings from entry depend on relative performance. This difference persists after controlling for attitudes...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

The costs of limited health literacy: a systematic review

Eichler, Klaus ; Wieser, Simon ; Brügger, Urs

In: International Journal of Public Health, 2009, vol. 54, no. 5, p. 313-324

Université de Fribourg

A productive clash of cultures : Injecting economics into leadership research

Zehnder, Christian ; Herz, Holger ; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe

In: The Leadership Quarterly, 2017, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 65-85

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both fields could profit from...