The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising …

royalties. This paper reviews the core issues that arise, in terms of both efficient rent extraction and correcting various … to the time consistency problem that is central to the extractive industries, but royalties are (although time consistent …

decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average … collateralizable housing wealth in a region delays chains’ entry into franchising by 0.28 years on average, 9 percent of the average …

each other. The contract may contain two types of incentives for the agent to work hard: a bonus and a threat of dismissal …

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

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

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

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 …

) 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 …