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Israel, the Palestinian Factions and the Cycle of Violence

Jaeger, David A; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

over a two-state solution to the conflict as well as the organizational structures of the factions. …

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Some Preliminary Evidence from a UK Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper evaluates the impact of a team-based incentive scheme piloted in the public sector agency, Jobcentre Plus. The way the scheme has been designed raises many questions for which theory makes predictions. We test these predictions against our data. We find that team size affects the...

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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence

Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

other in a team. Our results suggest that teams in which the importance of these benefits varies across team members are …

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Contracting With Synergies

Edmans, Alex; Goldstein, Itay; Zhu, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies multi-agent optimal contracting with cost synergies. We model synergies as the extent to which effort by one agent reduces his colleague's marginal cost of effort. An agent's pay and effort depend on the synergies he exerts, the synergies his colleagues exert on him and,...

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Contracting With Synergies

Edmans, Alex; Goldstein, Itay; Zhu, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … to form teams with others of similar ability instead of with their friends. Introducing rank incentives however reduces … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality … the incentive scheme had a substantial positive effect in small teams, and a negative response in large teams. We found … show that the scheme in small teams had non-trivial effects on output, and our estimates suggest that the use of incentive …

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Joint Production in Teams

Battaglini, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Consider Holmström.s moral hazard in teams problem when there are n agents, each agent i has a a …

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Informational Externalities, Herding and Incentives

Bru, Lluís; Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

A version of the herding prediction model with a rational expectations flavor is reexamined in the light of incentive theory. The welfare loss at the market solution with respect to the incentive efficient solution can be decomposed into an information externality term minus an incentive cost...

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Globalization and the 'New Enterprise'

Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Globalization has been identified by many experts as a new way firms organize their activities. This Paper surveys recent work that examines the role of trade integration between similar and dissimilar countries for these changes in corporate organization. It is shown that international...

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