distinguish two cases. First, the firm owner chooses the intensity of motivation and bears the motivational costs. Second, another …

We study an endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R and D sector coexists with the introduction of free … may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To …

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of … source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to publish their own improvements. The evolution of the open …

cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the … identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed’s feeling of identity is …

norms that causes an increase in identity utility for the formerly unemployed. This is supportive of the idea that, by … including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the …