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Simply a Matter of Luck & Looks? Predicting Elections when Both the World Economy and the Psychology of Faces Count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - CESifo - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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Does the John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity and Citation Success?

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2013

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients’ subsequent research activity and status compared to a...

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Financial Constraints and Moral Hazard: The Case of Franchising

Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - CESifo - 2013

Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of...

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Social Relations and Relational Incentives

Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To … each other. The contract may contain two types of incentives for the agent to work hard: a bonus and a threat of dismissal …

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How do Incentives Affect Creativity?

Eckartz, Katharina; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012

a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and …

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Combining "Real Effort" with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task

Gaechter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - CESifo - 2015

an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …

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Punishment - and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009

feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …

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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2012

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …

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Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - CESifo - 2011

) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may … types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a large sample representative of 15 …

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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and non Education Outcomes: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy

Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - CESifo - 2011

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

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