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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control
Siemens, Ferdinand von - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting control can reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differ in their propensity for...
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Monitoring your Friends, Not your Foes: Strategic Ignorance and the Delegation of Real Authority
Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
In this laboratory experiment we study the use of strategic ignorance to delegate real authority within a firm. A worker can gather information on investment projects, while a manager makes the implementation decision. The manager can monitor the worker. This allows her to better exploit the...
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
Praag, Bernard van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. …
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Welfare Effects of Distortionary Company Car Taxation
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
In Europe, company cars are offered by employers as fringe benefits to their employees at a lower price than employees pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The...
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Indirect Welfare Effects of Price Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
The effects of a policy measure often reach the consumer only after one or more intermediate steps, for instance because the measure lowers the cost of an input for an industry producing a consumer good. This paper is concerned with the question how to measure such indirect effects correctly...
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The Shadow Price of Aircraft Noise Nuisance
Praag, B.M.S. van; Baarsma, B.E. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
This paper has a twofold objective. First, we develop a new method to assess the monetary value for individuals of external effects. The method makes use of an ordinal index of life satisfaction as scored by individual respondents who are subjected in varying intensity to the external effect....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144424
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Regional Efficiency Improvement by Means of Data Envelopment Analysis through Euclidean Distance Minimization including Fixed Input Factors – An Application to Tourist Regions in I...
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is characterized by uniform proportional input reduction or output augmentation in calculating improvement projections. This paper develops a new Euclidean Distance Minimization model in the context of DEA in order to derive a more appropriate...
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The Costs and Benefits of Providing Open Space in Cities
Rouwendal, Jan; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared them to the costs of providing this amenity. In this paper, we use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. The rule is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136923
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The Information Content of a Stated Choice Experiment
Rouwendal, Jan; Blaeij, Arianne de; Rietveld, Piet; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper presents a method to assess the distribution of values of time, and values of statistical life, over participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of distribution, as is required for example for mixed logit...
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