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Control Aversion in Hierarchies
De Chiara, Alessandro; Engl, Florian; Herz, Holger; … - 2022
Companies typically control various aspects of their workers’ behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the … hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers’ ensuing reaction. In particular …, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether potential negative behavioral reactions to imposed control are larger when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082243
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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316984
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Bribery vs. Extortion : Allowing the Lesser of Two Evils
Khalil, Fahad; Lawarree, Jacques P.; Yun, Sungho - 2021
Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work in forging information, we present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317102
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Optimal monitoring to implement clean technologies when pollution is random
Macho-Stadler, Inés; Pérez-Castrillo, David - 2007
We analyze a model where firms chose a production technology which, together with some random event, determines the final emission level. We consider the coexistence of two alternative technologies: a "clean" technology, and a "dirty" technology. The environmental regulation is based on taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264107
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Bribery vs. extortion: allowing the lesser of two evils
Khalil, Fahad; Lawarrée, Jacques; Yun, Sungho - 2007
Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work in forging information, we present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264126
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A note on the time series measure of conservatism
Brauer, Sebastian; Westermann, Frank - 2010
Asymmetric persistence of accounting income is often tested in a regression of changes in earnings on lagged changes in earnings, including an interaction term for negative changes (see Basu [1997] or Ball et al. [2009] for a recent overview). In this note we propose an alternative, but closely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266098
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Is the notification of monitoring a threat to the unemployed?: a regression discontinuity approach
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2007
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272741
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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure in Romania: A multilevel analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274993
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State ownership and control in the Czech Republic
Kocenda, Evézen; Hanousek, Jan - 2009
We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade … (1995-2005) in the Czech Republic. During this period the integrated control potential of the state resembled a corporate … pyramid. While pyramidal control was not fully utilized, the golden share in the hands of the state substantially enhanced its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265983
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Migration into the Welfare State: Tax and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2013
In this paper I provide some support to the Tiebout hypothesis. It suggests that when a group of host countries faces an upward supply of immigrants, tax competition does not indeed lead to a race to the bottom; competition may lead to higher taxes than coordination. We identify a fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312868