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Thanks for Nothing? Not-for-Profits and Motivated Agents

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mueller, Hannes Felix - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We re-examine the labor donation theory of not-for-profits and show that these organizations may exist not necessarily because motivated workers prefer to work in them, or that they dominate for-profits in terms of welfare, but because the excess supply of motivated workers makes the non-profit...

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Team Governance: Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...

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A Brief Survey of the Economics of Open Source Software

Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The open source model is a form of software development in which the source code is made available, free of charge, to all interested parties; further users have the right to modify and extend the program. Open source software (OSS) methods rely on developers who reveal the source code under an...

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Continuous Preferences Can Cause Discontinuous Choices: An Application to the Impact of Incentives on Altruism

Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

economic theory of human motivation. The first (‘type discontinuity’) is the observation of a discontinuity in the distribution …

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No margin, no mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks

Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Jack, Kelsey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

hired by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard …-financial rewards elicit effort both by leveraging intrinsic motivation for the cause and by facilitating social comparison among agents …. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. …

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Run For Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance

Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We use data from the 24-hours Belluno run which has the unique characteristic that participants are affiliated with teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also to study group dynamics in terms of accessions to and...

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose … of this Paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and …

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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation and reciprocity in driving open source software …

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Religion and Innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...

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Innovation in creative cities: Evidence from British small firms

Lee, Neil; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Creative cities are seen as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. Yet, beyond case studies of a few high-profile cities, there is little empirical evidence on the link between local creative industries concentration and innovation. This paper addresses this gap...

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