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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 …

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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 …

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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

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...

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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...

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Punishment – and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior …

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Evaluitis – Eine Neue Krankheit

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006

: incentives are distorted, ossification is induced and the decision approach is wrongly conceived. As a result, evaluations are …

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How much do journal titles tell us about the academic interest and relevance of economic research? An empirical analysis

Schlaepfer, Felix - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

Unlike in other disciplines, research output in economics is commonly measured based on the journal titles in which an author has published. Here, I examine how much output measures based on journal titles tell us about the academic interest and relevance of economic papers as measured by...

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Contingent valuation: a new perspective

Schlaepfer, Felix - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007

After several decades of academic research on the contingent valuation (CV) method a consistent behavioral explanation of 'hypothetical bias' is still lacking. Based on evidence from economics, economic psychology and the political sciences, I propose an explanation that is based on two simple...

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