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Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

the agent's motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his performance, the principal in our experiment decides …

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Self-Confidence: Intrapersonal Strategies

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

effort. Self-confidence thus enhances motivation, and this gives a time--inconsistent individual a strong incentive to build …

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Willpower and Personal Rules

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the internal commitment mechanisms or ‘personal rules’ (diets, exercise regimens, resolutions, moral or religious precepts, etc.) through which people seek to achieve self-control. Our theory is based on the idea of self-reputation over one’s willpower, which potentially...

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Incentives and Prosocial Behaviour

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. The presence of rewards or punishments creates doubt as to the true motive for which good deeds are performed, and this ‘overjustification...

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Self-Confidence & Social Interactions

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

- as stressed by psychologists - in that they undermine intrinsic motivation. As a result, they may be only weak … motivation, while offers of help may create a dependence. More generally, we identify when the hidden costs of rewards are a myth …

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Laws and Norms

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors...

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The Competitiveness of Hungarian Industry

Hare, Paul G; Hughes, Gordon; Michael, Thomas; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Using an RAS update to 1990 of an 86-sector input-output table for Hungary in 1986, and corresponding data on world … sectors are obtained under a variety of conditions. Hungary's trade relationships and constraints on trade make it uncertain … Hungary and the EC on Hungary's competitiveness, finding that some sectors will be strengthened, e.g. forestry, agriculture …

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Factors and Effects of Trade Reorientation in Hungary

Halpern, László - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The collapse of the CMEA completed the Hungarian trade reorientation during the second half of the 1980s. Panel model estimations of trade reorientation reveal that cost efficiency, export subsidy and foreign demand played important and varying roles between 1981 and 1990. During the last two...

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After, Before and During: Returns to Education in Hungary (1986-1998)

Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

How valuable are the skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This Paper throws light on this question using unique data covering the years before and during transition (1986-98) for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners. We find that returns to a year of schooling increased by 75%...

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Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

benefit systems. We investigate this issue with a field experiment in Hungary involving random assignment of benefit claimants …

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