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Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians : Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
In 2010, we informed a random set of Delhi councilors, some ineligible for re-election in their current ward, that a newspaper would report on their performance shortly prior to the 2012 city elections. Using slum dwellers' spending preferences, we created a councilor-specific index of pro-poor...
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Reconsidering Contractual Liability and the Incentive to Reveal Information
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1999
In an earlier work, we analyzed how the legal rules governing contractual liability affect the transfer of information between the parties to the contract. In particular, we showed how limitations on contractual liability might lead high valuation buyers to reveal their valuation of performance,...
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Privatization, Information and Incentives
Sappington, David E. M. - 1987
In this paper, the choice between public and private provision of goods and services is considered. In practice, both modes of operation involve significant delegation of authority, and thus appear quite similar in some respects. The argument here is that the main difference between the two mod-...
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Alternative Compensation Arrangements and Productive Efficiency in Partnerships : Evidence from Medical Group Practice
Gaynor, Martin - 1987
or responsiveness to financial incentives. In the frontier literature productive efficiency is assumed to be exogenously … with theoretical work on internal theory of the firm, which predicts that productivity compensation schemes will work well … production, as theory has hypothesized. The number of members in a group decreases both the quantity produced and the efficiency …
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Country Risk and Incentives Schemes
Aizenman, Joshua - 1986
The purpose of this paper is to address the role of endogenous default penalties that are contingent upon the intensity of default on the part of the borrowing nation, and to evaluate the effects of contingency plans that make the interest rate dependent upon variables that are correlated with...
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Incentives and Wage Rigidity
Lazear, Edward P. - 1984
rigid than pay that is not designed to effect incentives. Some have gone so far as to argue that this may explain … differences in unemployment rates across countries. it is shown that there is no direct link between incentives and wage rigidity …. Many compensation schemes that provide incentives have the reverse effect: That is, they tend to make wages more rigid than …
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Work Incentive Effects of Taxing Unemployment Benefits
Solon, Gary - 1984
Before 1979, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were not treated as taxable income in the United States. Several economists criticized this policy on the ground that not taxing UI benefits while taxing earned income allegedly encourages unemployed persons to conduct longer than socially...
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Economic Incentives to Retire : A Qualitative Choice Approach
Mitchell, Olivia S. - 1983
This paper addresses two questions:(1) Are older persons' retirement ages significantly affected by the opportunities for income from earnings,private pensions, and Social Security and for leisure at alternative retirement ages?; and (2) How large are the estimated responses? Our approach to...
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Social Security and Labor Supply Incentives
Gordon, Roger H. - 1982
Many provisions of the Social Security Program distort an individual's labor supply incentives. In particular, the …
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Piece Rate vs. Time Rate : The Effect of Incentives on Earnings
Seiler, Eric - 1982
individual employee earnings. The study examines the impact of incentives on the earnings of over 100,000 employees in 500 firms …
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