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Tech in Fin before FinTech : blessing or curse for financial stability?

Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, Yannick - 2020

Motivated by the world-wide surge of FinTech lending, we analyze the implications of lenders' information technology adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a novel dataset that provides information on hardware...

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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition

Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016

This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...

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Non-competitive wage-setting as a cause of unfriendly and inefficient leadership

Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2019 - This draft: September 2019

This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can - in addition to the use of monetary incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles...

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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I ﬁnd that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation. …

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Why are small firms different? : managers views

Agell, Jonas - 2003

care about relative pay. I argue that these findings fit with behavioral stories of incentives and motivation, in …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Perceived legitimacy and motivation effects of authority

Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024

Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in … organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived …

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Wage policy and endogenous wage rigidity : a representative view from the inside

Agell, Jonas; Bennmarker, Helge - 2002

have an impact on attitudes concerning effort and motivation. …

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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …

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