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Pay Few Subjects But Pay Them Well : Cost-Effectiveness of Random Incentive Systems
March, Christoph - 2016
Most large-scale economic experiments use a between-subjects random incentive system-BRIS-which selects a subset of the participants at random and offers real payment only to the selected participants. We evaluate the relative impact of nominal payoffs and the selection probability on the...
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Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses : A Sufficient Statistics Approach
Kroft, Kory - 2017
We derive a sufficient statistics optimal income tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and … endogenous wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the income distribution. The sufficient … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …
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Bonus Taxes and International Competition for Bank Managers
Gietl, Daniel - 2017
We analyze the competition in bonus taxation when banks compensate their managers by means of fixed and incentive pay and bankers are internationally mobile. Banks choose bonus payments that induce excessive managerial risk-taking to maximize their private benefits of existing government bailout...
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More Effort with Less Pay : On Information Avoidance, Belief Design and Performance
Huck, Steffen - 2015
In a tedious real effort task, subjects know that their piece rate is either low or ten times higher. When subjects are informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this instrumental information when given the choice - and...
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The Effects of a Bonus Tax on Manager Compensation and Welfare
Radulescu, Doina Maria - 2010
This paper analyses the implications of a currently publicly debated issue, namely the introduction of a bonus tax. We shed light on the effects of the bonus tax on compensation components and study its incidence. We use the Principal Agent model within a two-country framework and consider two...
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Corporate Deductibility Provisions and Managerial Incentives
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2014
Using an agency model of firm behavior, the paper analyzes whether the cost of investment should be tax exempt. The findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is tax deductible, as commonly advocated. The extent to...
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Asymmetric Taxation and Performance-Based Incentive Contracts
Niemann, Rainer - 2021
This paper analyzes the effects of symmetric and asymmetric taxation on performance-based versus fixed remuneration contracts. I integrate a proportional corporation tax and a proportional wage tax into a binary principal-agent model. The wage tax increases the remuneration costs and makes the...
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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2021
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...
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Executive Compensation : A Survey of Theory and Evidence
Edmans, Alex - 2017
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on executive compensation. We start by presenting data on the level of CEO and other top executive pay over time and across firms, the changing composition of pay; and the strength of executive incentives. We compare pay in U.S. public...
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Do Countries Compensate Firms for International Wage Differentials?
Mittermaier, Ferdi - 2010
We address the role of labor cost differentials for national tax policies. Using a simple theoretical framework with two countries competing for a mobile firm, we show that in a bidding race for FDI, it is optimal for governments to compensate firms for international labor cost differentials....
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