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National Opera. Merging all their box office and fundraising data, our data set not only contains individuals’ donations, but … public good – here, new productions – to have access to a private good – here, fringe benefits – and by altruism. The results …
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, and local development objectives of technology license offices. Royalty incentives work both by raising faculty effort and … sorting scientists across universities. The effect of incentives works primarily by increasing the quality (value) rather than …
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performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We … present evidence from a large-scale field experiment in the Dutch market for long-term care. We find that increasing the … degree of control reduces the number of applications and that introducing performance incentives reduces this even further …
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validity of results obtained in lab experiments or from sports data. To address these concerns we conducted a field experiment …
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We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for … extrinsic incentives. The model also allows us to identify settings that are conducive to multiple social norms of behaviour … sponsors, including the level and confidentiality or publicity of incentives. Sponsor competition may cause rewards to bid down …
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), 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 and inferences, and how they interact with material incentives. It then … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and …
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in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …
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This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...
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The majority of enterprises in China are controlled by local governments at the provincial, city, county, township and village levels. We study the effect of regional decentralization on soft budget constraints in these enterprises. We show that fiscal competition under (foreign) capital...
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Investment liberalizing countries are often concerned that cross-border mergers & acquisitions might have an adverse effect on domestic firms and benefit multinational enterprises (MNEs). Given that domestic assets are sufficiently scarce, we identify a preemption effect and an asset...
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