Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e … enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices' for serving different demographic subgroups of clients, influence case … change the composition of their enrollee populations in response to changes in the incentives, increasing the relative …

various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients …

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …

Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU …

This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer …

Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In … with positive externalities between agents, incentive reversal might occur: an increase in monetary incentives (either …

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the … are paid piece rates based on individual productivity, social incentives can be quantified in monetary terms and are such … productivity by 10%. The distribution of worker ability is such that the net effect of social incentives on the firm's aggregate …