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Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007

transfers from parents to children are gifts, and not temporary help to overcome liquidity constraints. Second, inter vivos … gifts are compensatory in the sense that life-time poorer children will receive higher transfers than their life-time richer … siblings. Third, inter vivos gifts do not, however, make up the entire difference in life-time incomes. …

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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts

Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne - 2016

incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for … crowding out of intrinsic motivation. By comparison, wage gifts are ineffective. Additional treatments show that it is the …

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Intention-based reciprocity and the hidden costs of control

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2011

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Should the same side of the market always move first in a transaction? : an experimental study

Heijden, Eline C. van der; Nelissen, Jan H. M.; Verbon, … - 2000

buyer) always moves second in the exchange gives higher payoffs than exchangesin which it is randomly determined who moves …

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Positional power in hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare...

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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about...

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Discretionary authority and prioritizing in government agencies

Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Tóth, Lukás; Tuinstra, Jan - 2015

Government agencies typically have a certain freedom to choose among different possible courses of action. This paper studies agency decision-making on priorities in a principal-agent framework with multi-tasking. The agency head (the principal) has discretion over part of the agency's budget to...

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Pros and cons of the impact factor in a rapidly changing digital world

McAleer, Michael; Oláh, Judit; Popp, József - 2018

The purpose of the paper is to present arguments for and against the use of the Impact Factor (IF) in a rapidly changing digital world. The paper discusses the calculation of IF, as well as the pros and cons of IF. Editorial policies that affect IF are examined, and the merits of open access...

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On esteem-based incentives

Mazyaki, Ali; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018

Incentives based on esteem, honor and shame are increasingly popular and easy to use due to modern surveillance techniques. However, the use of shaming is controversial: critics argue that delegating punishment to a crowd can lead to mob justice and a loss of control over the size of the...

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Common pool resources : is there support for conservationists?

Ansink, Erik; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2018

We examine the role of support for coalition stability in common pool resource games such as fisheries games. Some players may not want to join a coalition that jointly manages a resource. Still, because they benefit from spillovers, they may want to support the coalition with a transfer payment...

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