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experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …
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Agency theory assumes that tighter monitoring by the principal should motivate the agent to raise his effort level whereas the “crowding-out” literature suggests that it may reduce the overall work effort. These two assertions are not necessarily contradictory provided that the nature of the...
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This article analyzes the incentive to merge in a context of price competition with horizontal product differentiation. In contrast to the results obtained by Kamien and Zang (1990), we show that merged equilibria can appear in this game. Moreover monopolization of the industry occurs with a...
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externalities create private incentives for each competitor to charge low access prices. This result moderates the risk of tacit …
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the gap in the theoretical literature concerning mergers in pharmaceutical markets. To prevent generic firms from … duopoly model by considering the pseudo-generics production as a mergers’ catalyst. We show that a brand-name company always …
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When the assignment of incentives is uncertain, we study how the regularity and frequency of rewards and risk attitudes … show that less able and more risk averse players are less persistent in effort. Intermittent incentives lead to a greater … persistence of effort, while continuous incentives entail exit as soon as payment stops. Randomness increases both earlier and …
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We explore the effects of competitive incentives and of their time horizon on the evolution of both asset prices and …
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to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …, sorting is efficiency-enhancing since it increases the homogeneity of the contestants. We suggest that the flexibility of the …
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This paper reports on the results of an experiment testing whether the agents selfselect between a competitive payment scheme and a revenue-sharing scheme depending on their inequity aversion. Average efficiency should be increased when these payment schemes are endogenously chosen by agents. We...
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In this paper, we analyze group incentives when a proportion of agents feel in- equity aversion as defined by Fehr and … show that a tournament provides strong incentives to agents who only care about their own payo¤ but that it is not …
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