Similar Search Results

Delegation and Interim Performance Evaluation

Schütte, Miriam; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - CESifo - 2013

This paper considers the effects of an interim performance evaluation on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Assuming the agents’ outside option to be determined by market beliefs about their type, interim evaluations (a) provide...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010639425

Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181512

Social Exchange and Common Agency in Organizations

Dur, Robert; Roelfsema, Hein - CESifo - 2007

We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate a manager’s attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406384

Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - CESifo - 2014

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779409

Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010

of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583733

Incentives, Reputation and the Allocation of Authority

Englmaier, Florian; Filipi, Ales; Singh, Ravi - CESifo - 2010

undermines the benefits of delegating control, leading to decreased managerial authority and stronger monetary incentives. When …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583737

The Environmental and Macroeconomic Effects of Socially Responsible Investment

Dam, Lammertjan; Heijdra, Ben J. - CESifo - 2008

We analyze the effects of socially responsible investment and public abatement on environmental quality and the economy … in a continuous-time dynamic growth model featuring optimizing households and firms. Environmental quality is modelled as … socially responsible investment behaviour by households partially offsets the positive effects on environmental quality of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196236

Firms’ Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406378

Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764293

Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - CESifo - 2008

benefits and tax credits among "comparable" households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406074