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Incentives, Monitoring, and Motivation
Rauh, Michael T.; Seccia, Giulio - EconWPA - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005550897
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Does Geography Play a Role in Domestic Takeovers? Theory and Finnish Micro-level Evidence
Böckerman, Petri; Lehto, Eero - EconWPA - 2005
This paper explores domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from the regional perspective. The Finnish firm-level evidence reveals that geographical closeness matters a lot for M&As within a single country. Thus, a great number of domestic M&As occur within narrowly defined regions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556219
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Optimal Monitoring with External Incentives: The Case of Tipping
Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003
The article examines the optimal choice of monitoring intensity when workers face external incentives (incentives that … be more attractive to other employers. Increase in such external incentives reduces optimal monitoring intensity but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125035
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Booms, Busts, and Fraud
Povel, Paul; Singh, Rajdeep; Winton, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003
successfully. As investors' monitoring costs decrease, the region in which fraud occurs shifts towards better business conditions …. It follows that if business conditions are sufficiently strong, a decrease in monitoring costs actually increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134707
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On the Reliability of Trusting
James, Harvey - EconWPA - 2002
This paper presents a model of trust in which a principal chooses either to trust or monitor an agent who, in turn, chooses either to honor or exploit that trust. The principal's decision of whether to trust or monitor is based on the relative temptation an agent faces to exploit the principal's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135015
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Hidden Teacher Effort in Educational Production: Monitoring vs. Merit Pay
Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
the presence of costly government resources and convex effort costs, teacher monitoring - which is wasteful in principle … shown to make the case for monitoring activity instead of incentive pay even stronger. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076924
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Does Geography Play a Role in Domestic Takeovers? Theory and Finnish Micro-level Evidence
Böckerman, Petri; Lehto, Eero - EconWPA - 2005
This paper explores domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from the regional perspective. The Finnish firm-level evidence reveals that geographical closeness matters a lot for M&As within a single country. Thus, a great number of domestic M&As occur within narrowly defined regions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118986