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This paper studies the importance of incentives as a determinant of international trade flows. We argue that barter …
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This paper addresses a key issue of the link between increased capital inflows through FDI and industrial competitiveness in Brazil. It provides an analysis of the two way relationship which can exist in theory between FDI and competitiveness, as well as some empirical evidence from Brazil in...
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literature on incentives. For participants who roll the die, the experiment can be seen as a tool to randomly assign an incentive …
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Willingness to vaccinate and test are critical in the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the effects of two measures to increase vaccination and testing: "choice architecture" and monetary compensations. Choice architecture has the goal of "nudging" people into a socially desired direction without...
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We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker's effort on the manager's payoff. Results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage-gift and the agent's ability to "repay the gift". We control for differences in...
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A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...
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work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods … experimental data. A short-term increase in incentives in one period should lead to higher effort in that period, and, due to …
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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … salience of team identity, social image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased salience of team … identity does not improve performance. Social image motivates the top performers. Additional monetary incentives improve all …
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