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The signaling role of corporate social responsibility

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Sharoni, Adi - 2014

We examine the role of CSR as a mechanism for private provision of public goods. We argue that corporations are using CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that offsets the positive externality, which causes the...

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Private monitoring, collusion and the timing of information

Khalil, Fahad; Lawarrée, Jacques; Scott, Troy J. - 2013

principal has a credibility issue with the agent. The agent should be concerned that the principal could misrepresent the … information in order to collect a monetary penalty from him. Restoring credibility may lead to an extreme waste of resources … different parties, while money is equally valuable to all parties. An alternative way to solve the principal’s credibility …

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Donating time or money : are they substitutes or complements?

Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - 2012

Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...

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Optimal litigation strategies with signaling and screening

Choné, Philippe (contributor); … - 2008

This paper examines the strategic effects of case preparation in litigation. Specifically, it shows how the pretrial efforts incurred by one party may alter its adversary’s incentives to settle. We build a sequential game with one-sided asymmetric information where the informed party first...

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Dissipative advertising signals quality even without repeat purchases

Linnemer, Laurent (contributor) - 2008

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On the desirability of taxing charitable contributions

Blumkin, Tomer (contributor); Tsadḳah, Efrayim (contributor) - 2007

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Optimal redistribution in the presence of signaling

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2021

redistributing income and affecting signalling incentives is analyzed, as well as extended tax systems that combine income taxation …

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The expected (signaling) value of higher education

Ehrmantraut, Laura; Pinger, Pia; Stans, Renske - 2020

This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...

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Health service gatekeepers

Malcomson, James - 2003

Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treat-ment costs must...

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Sales performance and social preferences

Essl, Andrea; Bieberstein, Frauke von; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2018

We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in other-regarding preferences among salespeople in a …

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