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We alter who gets the last word on the outcome in three different types of trust games: the first mover, the second mover, or, a committee comprised of first and second movers. The committee functions in a manner similar to a peer review process, in which experienced subjects pass judgment on...
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to bias forecasts to generate trade. Thus, analysts have clear economic incentives to deceive and traders have economic … incentives to detect deception. Prior analytical theories of information transmission games starkly predict that there will … receiver's incentives are not aligned. Prior experimental evidence of information transmission games show senders do elect to …
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Although compensation specialists generally argue for incentive systems that link rewards to performance, self-determination theory argues that such contingent rewards can have detrimental effects on autonomous motivation. The authors present a model of the motivational effects of compensation...
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credible so that the installations could see incentives to be in compliance with the regulation. Inspection is generally … carried out by the government who sets up the regulation. We have highlighted some economic incentives in order that the most …
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We consider the response to incentives as an explanation for productivity differences within a firm that paid its …: one due to differences in ability and the other due to differences in the response to incentives. We apply this … that individuals do react differently to incentives. However, while the women in our sample reacted slightly more to …
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Our objective in this paper is to illustrate and better understand the unavoidable arbitrage between incentives and …
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We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance …
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We analyze a two-task work environment with risk-neutral but inequality averse individuals. For the agent employed in task 2 effort is verifiable, while in task 1 it is not. Accordingly, agent 1 receives an incentive contract which, due to his wealth constraint, leads to a rent that the other...
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be 20%. Since planting conditions potentially affect incentives, structural econometric methods are used to generalize …
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The analysis of organizational change and particularly of its impacts on incentives is neither simple nor easy. We …
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