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Strategic delegation in experimental markets
Huck, Steffen; Müller, Wieland; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2000
contracts which determine their managers' salaries. One contract simply gives managers incentives to maximize firm profits …, while the second contract gives an additional sales bonus. Although theory predicts the second contract to be chosen, it is … only rarely chosen in the experimental markets. This behavior is rational given that managers do not play according to the …
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Assessing the effect of economic incentives on incidence and duration of work absence
Broström, Göran; Johansson, Per-Olov; Palme, Mårten - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000984770
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Allocating ideas: horizontal competition in tournaments
Ganuza, Juan José (contributor); Hauk, Esther (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Endogenous price leadership
Damme, Eric E. C. van (contributor);  … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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A way of explaining unemployment through a wage-setting game
Tasnádi, Attila (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Sequential moves and tacit collusion : reaction-function cycles in a finite pricing duopoly
Wallner, Klaus - 1997
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Crisis, debt, and default : the effects of time preference, information, and coordination
Ernstberger, Philip - 2016
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No more cutting class? : reducing teacher absence and providing incentives for performance
Rogers, F. Halsey - 2009
"Expanding and improving basic education in developing countries requires, at a minimum, teachers who are present in the classroom and motivated to teach, but this essential input is often missing. This paper describes the findings of a series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher...
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Corporate restructuring, downsizing and managerial compensation
Graßhoff, Ulrike; Schwalbach, Joachim - 1997
performance elasticities are contrary to predictions of agency theory. Both results provide further support to the common belief … that compensation contracts in public corporations seem imperfectly tied to firm performance and managers' tasks. …
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The development philosophy of Robert S. McNamara
Maddux, John L. - 1981
To mark the retirement of Robert S. McNamara as President of the World Bank after thirteen years of service, the Bank's Executive Directors commissioned a book gathering together all the principal statements Mr. McNamara made during his tenure of office
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