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Marc, Ohana - EconWPA - 2004

expérimentation en économie et en psychologie (incitation financière et utilisation de la tromperie), avant d’introduire ce qui nous …

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Does Motivation Trigger Autonomy, or Vice Versa?

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

contrast, findings from social psychology demonstrate that how people handle new information is closely related to what …

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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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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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THE NIGERIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY(1960 - 1987)

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

THE CONCEPT OF AN INDUSTRY IS IMPORTANT FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. HERE, WE DEFINE SUGAR INDUSTRY AS GROUP OF FIRMS PRODUCING SUGAR THAT ARE CLOSE SUBSTITUTES BY THE USE OF IDENTICAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND RAW MATERIALS. HOWEVER, SUGAR INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA WAS STILL IN ITS PIONEERING STAGE. THIS...

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Firm Performance and Compensation Structure: Performance Elasticities of Average Employee Compensation

Rayton, Bruce A. - EconWPA - 1996

Agency costs are a cost of production, and firms that do a better job of minimizing these costs should exhibit better performance. This paper tests this hypothesis by calculating the performance elasticity of average employee hourly compensation for U.S. manufacturing firms. This elasticity...

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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 … authority and reduction of oversight improves or decreases the provision of effort by account managers. Results suggest that … 'empowering managers' increases the time relationship managers spend with their corporate clients, increases perceived effort and …

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst - EconWPA - 2003

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The Linking of Collective Decisions and Efficiency

Jackson, Matthew O.; Sonnenschein, Hugo F. - EconWPA - 2003

For groups that must make several decisions of similar form, we define a simple and general mechanism that is designed to promote social efficiency. The mechanism links the various decisions by forcing agents to budget their representations of preferences so that the frequency of preferences...

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