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Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 1981

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Subjective evaluation versus public information

Bester, Helmut; Münster, Johannes - 2013

and not on the public signal. Nonetheless, public information is valuable as it facilitates truthful subjective evaluation …

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Project monitoring and banking competition under adverse selection

Kanniainen, Vesa; Stenbacka, Rune - 1998 - Revised version

We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...

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Communicating subjective evaluations

Lang, Matthias - 2018

? Suppose a manager's evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal's scope … for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show that the manager justifies her evaluation if and only if the … employee's performance was poor. The justification assures the employee that the manager has not distorted the evaluation …

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A model of educational attainment : application to the German case

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

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Class rank and long-run outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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Do performance ranks increase productivity? : evidence from a field experiment

Ashraf, Anik - 2019

Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate them or make them wary of outperforming peers. This...

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Inference on the maximal rank of time-varying covariance matrices using high-frequency data

Reiß, Markus; Winkelmann, Lars - 2021

We study the rank of the instantaneous or spot covariance matrix Σ(t) of a multidimensional continuous semi-martingale X(t). Given highfrequency observations X(i=n), i = 0; : : : ;n, we test the null hypothesis rank (Σ(t)) ≤ r for all t against local alternatives where the average (r + 1)st...

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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen

Büttner, Thiess - 2002

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non-routine task and identify the importance of these...

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