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Incentives for industrial exports : study by the UNCTAD Secretariat

1982

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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D

Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004

We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...

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Hidden Teacher Effort in Educational Production: Monitoring vs. Merit Pay

Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...

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Initiative, Incentives and Soft Information. How Does Delegation Impact The Role of Bank Relationship Managers?

Liberti, Jose Maria - EconWPA - 2004

This paper empirically examines how changes in the hierarchical structure of a large organization can affect incentives …

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst - EconWPA - 2003

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Old and New Theories of Fiscal Federalism, Organizational Design Problems, and Tiebout

Garzarelli, Giampaolo - EconWPA - 2005

motivations in support of federalism, namely, incentives and knowledge. Second, it succinctly discusses the incentive …

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Does Motivation Trigger Autonomy, or Vice Versa?

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

Do firms use autonomy to motivate workers, or do they give autonomous jobs to workers who are already especially motivated? A standard result in economics is that firms offer autonomous jobs to promote worker motivation. But surprisingly, little attention has been given to the details of this...

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Vouchers, Public School Response and the Role of Incentives: Evidence from Florida

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - EconWPA - 2005

years. Exploiting the institutional details of the 1999 program, I analyze the incentives built into the system and … investigate whether the threatened public schools behaved strategically to respond to incentives. There is strong evidence that … they did respond to incentives. Using highly disaggregated school level data, a difference- in-differences estimation …

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Efficient Mechanism Design

Krishna, Vijay; Perry, Motty - EconWPA - 1997

We study Bayesian mechanism design in situations where agents' information may be multi-dimensional, concentrating on mechanisms that lead to efficient allocations. Our main result is that a generalization of the well-known Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism maximizes the planner's "revenue'' among...

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