Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments--An experimental study
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- Sutter, Matthias & Strassmair, Christina, 2007. "Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study," Discussion Papers in Economics 2016, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
- Matthias Sutter & Christina Strassmair, 2007. "Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study," Working Papers 2007-19, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
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Tournament Team decision making Communication Collusion Free-riding Experiment;JEL classification:
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