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Job mission as a substitute for monetary incentives: experimental evidence
Cassar, Lea - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … laboratory experiment in which the choice of the job charac- teristics (i.e., the mission) is part of the compensation package … and non-monetary incentives imperfect. These findings have implications for the design of incentives in mission …
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Awards as Incentives
Neckermann, Susanne; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
use. This paper presents an experiment conducted online at IBM to assess the impact of these kinds of extrinsic incentives …Non-monetary incentives in the form of awards have so far escaped the attention of economists despite their widespread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627888
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Homo Oeconomicus Versus Homo Reciprocans: Ansätze für ein Neues Wirtschaftspolitisches Leitbild?
Falk, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Politik und öffentliches Bewusstsein werden zunehmend durch ökonomische Theorien und Handlungsvorschläge mitbestimmt. Kaum ein anderes erkenntnis- und handlungsleitendes Modell hat daher einen vergleichbaren Einfluss wie das Konzept des Homo Oeconomicus. Durch die Entwicklung experimenteller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585641
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Tax Compliance as the Result of a Psychological Tax Contract: The Role of Incentives and Responsive Regulation
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
In this paper, we develop the concept of a psychological tax contract that goes beyond the traditional deterrence model and explains tax morale as a complicated interaction between taxpayers and the government. Based on crowding theory, the impact of deterrence and rewards on tax morale is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184886
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Trust Breeds Trust: How Taxpayers are Treated
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Tax compliance has been studied in economics by analysing the individual decision of a representative person between paying and evading taxes. A neglected aspect of tax compliance is the interaction of taxpayers and tax authorities. The relationship between the two actors can be understood as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627886
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Tax Morale and Conditional Cooperation
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
Why so many people pay their taxes, although fines and audit probability are low, has become a central question in the tax compliance literature. A homo economicus, with a more refined motivation structure, helps us to shed light on this puzzle. This paper provides empirical evidence for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005628000
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The lure of authority: Motivation and incentive effects of power
Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240402
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The lure of authority: Motivation and incentive effects of power
Fehr, Ernst; Wilkening, Tom; Herz, Holger - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
controlling parties, while a large percentage of subordinates under-provide effort despite pecuniary incentives to the contrary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817259
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Does the John Bates Clark Medal boost subsequent productivity and citation success?
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno; Gallus, Jana - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013
Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients’ subsequent research activity and status compared to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817302
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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but for the vast majority this is impossible because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition maybe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979379