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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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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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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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Hidden Benefits of Reward : A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives
Kvaloy, Ola - 2013
We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay...
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The Effect of Incentives in Non-Routine Analytical Teams Tasks - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Englmaier, Florian - 2018
Despite the prevalence of non-routine analytical team tasks in modern economies, little is known about how incentives influence performance in these tasks. In a field experiment with more than 3000 participants, we document a positive effect of bonus incentives on the probability of completion...
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Contractual and Organizational Structure with Reciprocal Agents
Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2021
Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...
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Incentives to Work and Performance in the Public Sector
Economides, George - 2015
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with three distinct social groups, capitalists, private workers and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for...
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Optimal Liability When Consumers Mispredict Product Usage
Baniak, Andrzej - 2016
We contrast alternative liability rules for social control of product risks when heterogeneous consumers considering …' mispredictions vary with the prevailing liability regime. We first characterize the consumers' purchasing decision and the … equilibrium levels of safety and activity from the product's usage under no liability, strict liability, and negligence rule. We …
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On the Optimal Use of Correlated Information in Contractual Design Under Limited Liability
Danau, Daniel - 2018
when the agent is protected by limited liability. In this paper, we investigate how the principal should construct the … globally incentive compatible under limited liability, if local incentive constraints are strictly satisfied. We identify …
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