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incentives under limited commitment. It circumvents ratchet effects and facilitates the revelation of persistent private …
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reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We … conditions under which monetary incentives and motivational effort are substitutes or complements, and show that motivational …
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rents can be used to provide incentives. Preferences for reciprocity still affect the structure of an employment … interaction. Therefore, reciprocity-based and repeated-game incentives are dynamic substitutes, but complements at any given point …
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and moral hazard. Forgetting a default typically makes incentives worse, ex-ante, because it reduces the punishment for … increases the incentive to exert effort to preserve this reputation. Our key result is that if (i) borrowers’ incentives are …
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Using the concept of Inequity Aversion we derive in a Moral Hazard setting several results which differ from conventional contract theory. Our three key insights are: First, inequity aversion plays a crucial role in the design of optimal contracts. Second, there is a strong tendency towards...
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actors provide powerful incentives and become superior when there are some fair-minded players. The principals understand … enforcement power of explicit and implicit incentives. This contract preference is associated with the fact that explicit … incentives weaken the enforcement power of implicit bonus incentives significantly. Our results are largely consistent with …
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Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...
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. These discontinuities create strong incentives to upcode preterm infants into classes of lower birth weight. Using data from … financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …
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Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within firms. We develop a model in which firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers. We test...
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This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
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