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We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment …
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the firm's behavior. An experiment tests the theoretical predictions. In line with theory, Strict Liability and Negligence …
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introduce a new type of tournament into the literature: premium incentives. While premium incentives, just like fixed … minimization, we are able to show that premium incentives outperform fixed-prize tournaments as well as piece rates. Our … theoretical result is qualitatively confirmed by a controlled laboratory experiment and has important practical implications for …
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This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit …
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Transparency in teams can induce cooperation. We study contribution decisions by agents when previous decisions can be observed. We find that an information chain, in which each agent directly observes only the decision of her immediate predecessor, is at least as effective as a...
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We report evidence from an experiment where a principal chooses an agent out of two to perform a task for a fixed …
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This study is directly motivated by the results of Eckartz et al (2012). Subjects exerted suprisingly high efforts irrespectively of how they were compensated. This paper discusses a number of potential explanations and then it will focus on two of them: first, subjects might exert effort simply...
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a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and …
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under hypothetical than under real incentives. Still, in the low control treatment, we observe much weaker negative … incentives, and preliminary findings on the relationship between demographics and the degree of control aversion lead us to …
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Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are … behaviours and tend to follow them. However, the fact that university policies and TTOs have provided little incentives for …
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