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tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than …
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We characterize the set of second-best optimal "menus" of student-loan contracts in a simple economy with risky labour-market outcomes, adverse selection, moral hazard and risk aversion. The model combines student loans with an elementary optimal income-tax problem. The second-best optima...
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Empirical studies show that most franchise chains use dual distribution - or a plural form franchise system - characterized by the coexistence of franchised units and company- owned retail units in the same distribution network. Therefore, this paper focuses on dual distribution and considers...
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enter a tournament instead of a piece-rate payment scheme, the average effort is higher and the between-subject variance is …
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the production period, and continuously updated feedback. We use two pay schemes, a piece rate and a tournament. We find …
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We describe a simple computing technique for the tournament choice problem. It rests upon relational modeling and uses …, the minimal covering set, the Banks set, and the tournament equilibrium set are delivered. We present an example of a … tournament on a small set of alternatives, for which the above choice sets are computed and visualized via RelView. The technique …
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This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry …. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no … gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more …
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matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a piece rate payment scheme, and finally perform a real task. As … already observed in the literature, we find that significantly more men than women choose the tournament. The gender of the co … tournament incentives, or allowing the participants to choose the gender of their co-participant, increases women's willingness …
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We describe a simple computing technique for the tournament choice problem. It rests upon relational modeling and uses …, the minimal covering set, the Banks set, and the tournament equilibrium set are delivered. We present an example of a … tournament on a small set of alternatives, for which the above choice sets are computed and visualized via RelView. The technique …
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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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