considered as existing in the political and economic "world". Here we refer to corruption as well as to the role of money as a … positional good. We also discuss such behaviour in the academic world, in which money plays a role as well as reputation. Thus …

Prior work has demonstrated that prosocial incentives - where individuals' effort benefits a charitable organization … - can be more effective than standard incentives, particularly when the stakes are low. Yet, little is known about the … effectiveness of prosocial incentives on people's decisions to participate or opt-in to the incentivized activity in the first place …

We consider a private sector job that offers high-powered incentives and two public sector jobs that produce an … identical public good, but only one of them offers opportunities for corruption. Our theoretical predictions relate occupation … and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The …

donation, non-monetary rewards do not. -- altruism ; blood donation ; incentives ; nudging ; recursive system ; warm glow …The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for …) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may …

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … framework. Patients differ in severity within a DRG. Providers are to some extent altruistic. For low altruism, a downward … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …

This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that …. Under relative performance evaluation, dynamic incentives impose more restriction on rent appropriation in comparison to the … static case. -- Yardstick competition ; rent-seeking ; public good ; electoral incentives …

In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent …