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Fahn, Matthias und Hakenes, Hendrik (2017): Teamwork as a Self-Disciplining Device. Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190, Discussion Paper No. 42 [PDF, 545kB]

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Abstract

We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. If individuals have present-biased preferences, effort that is costly today but rewarded at some later point in time is too low from the perspective of an individual's long-run self. If agents interact repeatedly and can monitor each other, a relational contract involving teamwork can help to improve performance. The mutual promise to work harder is credible because the team breaks up after an agent has not kept this promise - which leads to individual underproduction in the future and hence a reduction of future utility.

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