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studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive system, learning relative performance each … time. Using reduced form and structural methods we find that: (i) managers make overconfident predictions about future … performance; (ii) managers have overly-positive memories of past performance; (iii) the two phenomena are linked at an individual …
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paper we show that a workers' level of self-confidence plays a central role in shaping reactions to subjective evaluations …
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An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These 'conformists' have social preferences if they believe that sufficiently many of the others do too. When...
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In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work systems" are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...
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We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to the outcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if the team manager has some information about team members, interventions that the manager undertakes in order to...
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This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....
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