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Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2018
Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers’ level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932075
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Self-Confidence and Reactions to Subjective Performance Evaluations
Bellemare, Charles - 2019
Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers’ level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892258
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Institutions and contract enforcement
Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2008
enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264349
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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness across Ethnic Groups: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Bartos, Vojtech; Levely, Ian - 2018
We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...
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Stochastic Contracts and Subjective Evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2021
Subjective evaluations are widely used, but call for different contracts from traditional moral-hazard settings …. Previous literature shows that contracts require payments to third parties, which real-world contracts rarely use. I show that … the implicit assumption of deterministic contracts makes payments to third parties necessary. This paper studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799758
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Overwhelmed by Routine Tasks: A Multi-Tasking Principle Agent Perspective
Demougin, Dominique; Helm, Carsten - 2022
hazard. Contracts negotiated by firm/employee pairs follow from Nash bargaining. High- and low-skilled employees specialize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353365
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Communicating Subjective Evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2014
Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...
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Employee Referral, Social Proximity and Worker Discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317024
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Overwhelmed by Routine Tasks : A Multi-Tasking Principle Agent Perspective
Demougin, Dominique; Helm, Carsten - 2022
hazard. Contracts negotiated by firm/employee pairs follow from Nash bargaining. High- and low-skilled employees specialize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083473
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Trust and Contracts : Empirical Evidence
D'Acunto, Francesco; Xie, Jin; Yao, Jiaquan - 2021
' reaction to unplanned events, they might agree to pay higher costs of negotiation to complete contracts. Using a unique sample … of U.S. principal-agent consulting contracts and a negative shock to trust between parties staggered across space and … states of the world contracts cover increase after a drop in trust. The results hold for several text-analysis-based measures …
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