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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...
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experiment, reduces evasion, as predicted by our theory. Loss aversion, risk aversion, and their interaction, are critical …
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In many markets supply contracts include a series of small, regular payments made by consumers and a single, large bonus that consumers receive at some point during the contractual period. But, if for instance its production costs exceed its value to consumers, such a bonus creates...
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Before embarking on a project, a principal must often rely on an agent to learn about its profitability. We model this learning as a two-armed bandit problem and highlight the interaction between learning (experimentation) and production. We derive the optimal contract for both experimentation...
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We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...
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of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to …-earthquake control) on the effect of natural disasters on time and risk preferences. We find unambiguous effects towards more risk …
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We study how background health risk affects financial risk-taking. We elicit financial risk-taking behavior of a … infections across time and space, we find that an increase in infections affecting background health risk translates into higher … financial risk-taking, and for the alleviating effect of self-insurance devices …
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individuals are found to be more risk averse, in agreement with common findings. Unlike previous studies that ascribed gender … differences in risk attitudes solely to differences in the degree utility curvature, however, our results show that this finding …
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Risk aversion (a 2nd order risk preference) is a time-proven concept in economic models of choice under risk. More … recently, the higher order risk preferences of prudence (3rd order) and temperance (4th order) also have been shown to be quite … important. While a majority of the population seems to exhibit both risk aversion and such higher-order risk preferences, a …
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first-order approximated solution built by perturbation methods accounts for risk. We show that risk matters economically in … a real business cycle (RBC) model with habit formation and capital adjustment costs and that neglecting risk leads to …
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