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Compensation of venture capitalists with two principals

Kim, Sung Hyun - Econometric Society - 2004

incentives under the heavy information asymmetry (Sahlman, 1982, J. Financial Economics) In this paper, we consider how to design …

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Promotions, State Dependence and Intrafirm Job Mobility: Evidence From Personnel Records

Acosta, Pablo - Econometric Society - 2004

higher position their incentives to be â€œover-productiveâ€ may decline. …

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How often should you open the door? Optimal monitoring to screen heterogeneous agents

Muehlheusser, Gerd; Ichino, Andrea - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending the relationship increases over time. The intuition is simple: by monitoring too much we learn less on how...

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Extreme Sports Evaluation: Evidence from Judging Figure Skating

Lee, Jungmin - Econometric Society - 2004

The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating competitions provide a unique opportunity to study subjective evaluation. This paper develops a simple...

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Measuring the consumption value of higher education

Alstadsæter, Annette - Econometric Society - 2004

The consumption value of education is an important, but rather ignored factor behind the individual's educational choice. This paper suggests a method for measuring the consumption value of education in a compensating differentials framework when the ability bias is corrected for. As an example,...

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Relative and Absolute Incentives: Evidence on Worker Productivity

Oriana Bandiera (STICERD; LSE - Econometric Society - 2004

Using personnel data, we compare worker productivity under a relative incentive scheme -where pay is based on individual productivity relative to the average productivity of the group- to productivity under piece rates. We find that productivity is at least 50% higher under piece rates. Further...

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Attack Politics

Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio; Knight, Brian - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper is concerned with the dynamics of competition in American political campaigns, in particular with how the type of message a candidate sends is affected by the stage of the campaign, the status of the candidate, and the competitiveness of the race. The paper examines the allocation of...

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External Recruitment as an incentive Device

Chen, Kong-Pin - Econometric Society - 2004

the incentives of inside workers. This paper, however, shows that even from an incentive viewpoint, external recruitment … activity, can restore the incentives of the workers to engage in productive activity and enhances the firm's performance. We …

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School Choice, Incentives, and Academic Outcomes: Evidence from Chile

Gallego, Francisco A. - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper examines the effects of inter-school competition on student outcomes by using exogenous variation in the availability of private schools in Chile. Given that naïve estimates of the effects of competition on student outcomes are biased by endogenous entry of schools, this paper uses...

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Coordination, Specialization and Incentives: An Equilibrium Model of Firm Boundaries

Mathewson, Frank; Horstmann, Ignatius J. - Econometric Society - 2004

incentives for multiple agents to undertake efficient levels of the separate activities. The ability of various mechanisms to … provide incentives and the way that this ability is affected by information and agent numbers will determine both which …'s perspective -- but also by the ability of the coordination mechanism to provide incentives for efficient activity levels as …

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