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Does Competition Affect Giving? An Experimental Study

Duffy, John; Kornienko, Tatiana - EconWPA - 2005

We explore whether natural human competitiveness can be exploited to stimulate charitable giving in a controlled laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential ``dictator game.'' Without disclosing the actual amounts given and kept, in each period players are publicly...

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Does Motivation Trigger Autonomy, or Vice Versa?

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

motivated? A standard result in economics is that firms offer autonomous jobs to promote worker motivation. But surprisingly … motivates them. Does autonomy in fact trigger motivation? I argue in this study that motivation may trigger autonomy, and thus … motivation, and that motivated workers have a lower cost of processing information than unmotivated ones. While motivated workers …

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Incentives, Monitoring, and Motivation

Rauh, Michael T.; Seccia, Giulio - EconWPA - 2005

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Arousal, rank and utility

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2004

We apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the concept of utility and then go on to a new model where individual’s behavior is aimed at reaching optimal level of arousal of neural system and optimal level of domination in social ranking.

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The Green Entrepreneur: Visionary, Maverick or Opportunist?

Taylor, David W.; Walley, Liz E. E. - EconWPA - 2003

Given the importance of green entrepreneurs in the transition towards a truly sustainable society, this paper proposes frameworks for investigating the motives of entrepreneurs who set up green businesses. Different perceptions of 'green' are explored and although the paper focuses particularly...

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Financial contagion, interest rates and the role of the exchange rate as shock absorber in Central and Eastern Europe

Habib, Maurizio Michael - EconWPA - 2002

Republic, Hungary and Poland during the period August 1997 – May 2001. I find that neither exchange rates nor interest rates …

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Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

A 2002 survey of 1089 Czechs and 501 Slovaks, as well as a more limited survey of Hungary, and Poland, indicates that …

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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks

Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...

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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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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), who highlighted the role of ownership structure on firm performance in East Asia, the relationship between capital structure and ownership remains much unexplored. This is important, given recent empirical and theoretical work linking capital...

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