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Law and Behaviours in Social Dilemmas : Testing the Effect of Obligations on Cooperation

Galbiati, R.; Vertova, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

Laws consist of two components: the 'obligations' they express and the 'incentives' designed to enforce them.In this … paper we run a public good experiment to test whether or not obligations have any independent effect on cooperation in … social dilemmas.The results show that, for given marginal incentives, different levels of minimum contribution required by …

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Divestment, Entrepreneurial Incentives and the Decision to go Public

Wagner, Wolf - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

This paper develops a theory of the life cycle of the firm based on incentive constraints.The optimal sale of the firm is restricted by entrepreneurial moral hazard and a lack of commitment regarding future divestment.This leads to a dynamic inefficiency that causes the entrepreneur to delay and...

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Market Structure and Technology Diffusion Incentives under Alternative Environmental Policy Schemes

de Vries, F.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

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Effort and Selection Effects of Incentive Contracts

Bouwens, Jan; van Lent, L.A.G.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

performance measures used in the contract.We also find that the power of incentives in the contract is only indirectly related to …

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Is Leverage Effective in Increasing Performance Under Managerial Moral Hazard?

Calcagno, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

We consider a model in which the principal-agent relation between inside shareholders and the management affects the firm value.We study the effect of financing the project with risky debt in changing the incentive for a risk-neutral shareholder (the principal) to implement the project-value...

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Can Racially Unbiased Police Perpetuate Long-Run Discrimination?

Bunzel, H.; Marcoul, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

We develop a stylized dynamic model of highway policing in which a non-racist police officer is given incentives to … fair one and the gap increases when incentives are made more powerful.We then study this rate when policemen are provided …

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Sustainability and Substitution of Exhaustible Natural Resources : How Resource Prices Affect Long-Term R&D Investments

Smulders, Sjak; Bretschger, L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Traditional resource economics has been criticised for assuming too high elasticities of substitution, not observing material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth.By analysing a multi-sector R&D based endogenous growth model with exhaustible...

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Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Publish-or-Perish Culture : A Worldwide Survey

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, C.J.I.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: How does publication pressure in modern-day universities affect the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in science? By using a worldwide survey among demographers in developed and developing countries, we show that the large majority perceive the publication pressure as high, but more so...

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When to fire bad managers : The role of collusion between management and board of directors

Rebers, E.; Beetsma, R.M.W.J.; Peters, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

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On the incentives to provide fuel-efficient automobiles

Degryse, Hans; Irmen, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

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