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This paper analyzes private precautions against crime when the value of the property to be protected is private …, suboptimal investment can occur when observable precautions communicate information about property value to potential offenders …
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interaction between the incentive-compatibility and participations constraints may cause countervailing incentives. In important …
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The increase of fuel extraction costs as well as of temperature will make it likely that in the medium-term future technological or political measures against global warming may be implemented. In assessments of a current climate policy the possibility of medium-term future developments like...
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Prior work has demonstrated that prosocial incentives – where individuals' effort benefits a charitable organization … – can be more effective than standard incentives, particularly when the stakes are low. Yet, little is known about the … effectiveness of prosocial incentives on people's decisions to participate or opt-in to the incentivized activity in the first place …
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We derive the optimal contract between a principal and a liquidity-constrained agent in a stochastically repeated environment. The contract comprises a court-enforceable explicit bonus rule and an implicit fixed salary promise that must be self-enforcing. Since the agent's rent increases with...
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This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that …. Under relative performance evaluation, dynamic incentives impose more restriction on rent appropriation in comparison to the …
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We derive determinants of tax avoidance by means of a multi-task principal-agent model. We extend prevailing models by integrating both corporate and individual income taxation as well as by including tax planning effort in the agent's action portfolio. Our model shows novel and apparently...
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-sharing selective incentives …
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incentives under limited commitment. It circumvents ratchet effects and facilitates the revelation of persistent private …
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Real-effort experiments are frequently used when examining a response to incentives. For any particular real …-effort task to be well-suited for such an exercise, subjects' cost for exerting effort must, for the range of incentives … nonmonetary incentives. However, despite its increasing use, a simple between-subject examination of the slider task's response to …
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