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motivation may undermine intrinsic motivation. The self-perception (SP) theory developed by Bem (1972) explains this finding. The … crux of this theory is that people remember their past decisions and the extrinsic rewards they received, but they do not … recall their intrinsic motives. In this paper I show that the SP theory can be modeled as a variant of a conventional dynamic …
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This paper analyzes situations in which a project consisting of several activities is not realized according to plan. Ifthe project is expedited, a reward arises. Analogously, a penalty arises if the project is delayed. This paper considersthe case of arbitrary nondecreasing reward and penalty...
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of solutions using monotonicity properties. Finally, we provide a non-cooperative implementation for these solutions …
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characterizes the corresponding delta-discounted Shapley value. Moreover, we provide a strategic implementation of these solutions …
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initiation and implementation. If these have social preferences, they might thus sabotage both project choices and implementation … to express their discontent with the allocation of decision rights. How decisions come about also affects implementation … implementation leads to more delegation, but only if workers have high costs of obstructing informed decisions. We further find that …
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Cooperative games on antimatroids are cooperative games restricted by a combinatorial structure which generalize the permission structure. So, cooperative games on antimatroids group several well-known families of games which have important applications in economics and politics. Therefore, the...
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Critics of modern macroeconomics often raise concerns about unwarranted welfare conclusions and data mining. This paper illustrates these concerns with a thought experiment, based on the debate in environmental economics about the appropriate discount rate in climate change analyses: I set up an...
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