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La valorizzazione e sviluppo del capitale sociale, inteso come catalizzatore e patrimonio di asset intangibili per l'impresa, ha rappresentato uno dei più efficaci rimedi anti-crisi per le imprese di tutto il mondo che hanno dimostrato di saper far fronte a momenti di seria difficoltà. Sebbene...
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We study the impact of information manipulation by a principal on the agent's effort. In a context of asymmetric information at the principal's advantage, we test experimentally the principal's willingness to bias (overestimate or under-estimate) the information she gives to her agent on his...
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Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little … attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real …-effort experiment in which individuals had to decide when to exit the situation : a continuous reinforcement schedule (all periods paid …
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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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to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …
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Variable pay links pay and performance but may also help firms in attracting more productive employees. Our experiment … investigates the impact of performance pay on both incentives and sorting and analyzes the influence of repeated interactions … scheme; (iii) however, in repeated interactions, efficiency wages reduce the attraction of performance pay. Social motivation …
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-monetary source of motivation in a context where the length of the employment relationship is endogenous. In our three-stage gift …-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees' further effort …
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Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities … predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically …
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791578
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities … predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791715