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Balanced Scorecards : A Relational Contract Approach

Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond E. - 2021

Reward systems based on balanced scorecards typically connect pay to an index, i.e. a weighted sum of multiple performance measures. We show that such an index contract may indeed be optimal if performance measures are non-verifiable so that the contracting parties must rely on self-enforcement....

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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...

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Pay Transparency Under Subjective Performance Evaluation

Fahn, Matthias; Zanarone, Giorgio - 2021

This paper studies how pay transparency affects organizations that reward employees based on their efforts (i.e., using “subjective performance evaluation”). First, we show that transparency triggers social comparisons that require the organization to pay its employees an “envy premium”....

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The Performance of Socially Responsible Investments : A Meta-Analysis

Hornuf, Lars; Yüksel, Gül - 2022

In this article, we use a meta-analysis to examine the performance of socially responsible investing (SRI). After a thorough literature search, we review 153 empirical studies containing 1,047 observations of SRI performance. We find that, on average, SRI neither outperforms nor underperforms...

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Competition and Risk Taking in Local Bank Markets : Evidence from the Business Loans Segment

Canta, Chiara; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Ulsaker, Simen A. - 2023

banks. We find that more competition leads to more risk taking. We also examine the effects of bank competition on the …This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an … unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather than relying on …

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Bank Consolidation, Interest Rates, and Risk : A Post-Merger Analysis Based on Loan-Level Data from the Corporate Sector

Juranek, Steffen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Ulsaker, Simen A. - 2021

In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one … and number three in the Norwegian bank market. Focusing on loans to firms, our difference-in-differences analysis shows no … remedial measures imposed by the Norwegian Competition Authority on the two merging parties are also likely to explain some of …

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Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice …

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Social Norms and Misinformation : Experimental Evidence on Learning About Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021

with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual …

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The Determinants of Subnational Public Spending Allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

Karim, Azreen - 2020

disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … transfers, provided that it is allocated rationally. Broadly, this appears to be the case in Bangladesh. We leave the measuring …

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Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence on Bangladesh

Kee, Hiau-Looi - 2020

on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of …

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