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L’expérimentation en économie et en psychologie: une comparaison méthodologique.

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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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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What Citizens Know Depends on How You Ask Them: Experiments on Time, Money and Political Knowledge

Prior, Markus; Lupia, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

Surveys provide widely cited measures of political knowledge. Do unusual aspects of survey interviews affect these measures? An experiment on a nationally representative sample of over 1200 Americans provides an answer. Respondents are randomly assigned to one of four groups. A control group...

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The Size of Employee Stakeholding in Large UK Corporations

Rayton, Bruce A.; Seaton, Jonathan S. - EconWPA - 1996

The existing debate about policies designed to foster the development of a stakeholder economy have largely avoided a fundamental question. How large is the financial stake employees currently hold in their companies? This paper addresses this question using data from the Datastream database,...

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Are CEOs the Only Residual Claimants? Estimation of the Performance Elasticity of Per-Employee Compensation

Rayton, Bruce A. - EconWPA - 1994

This paper evaluates the intensity of the value-maximization incentives for average employees generated through wage …

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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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