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Job Assignments under Moral Hazard:The Peter Principle Revisited
Koch, Alexander Karl; Nafziger, Julia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Peter Principle captures two stylized facts about hierarchies: first, promotions often placeemployees into jobs for which they are less well suited than for that previously held. Second,demotions are extremely rare...
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Goals and Psychological Accounting
Koch, Alexander K. - 2011
We model how people formulate and evaluate goals to overcome self-control problems. People often attempt to regulate their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow psychological accounts) rather than jointly (in a broad account). To explain this evidence, our theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122976
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The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance
Gaechter, Simon - 2011
cooperation under non-incentive compatible contracts. Incentive-compatible contracts induce best-reply effort and crowd out any … contracts without any incentives and implicit incentives coming from repeated interaction. Implicit incentives have a strong … positive effect on effort only under non-incentive compatible contracts …
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Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment Among Students and Clerical Workers
Bigoni, Maria - 2012
We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate...
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Motivational Goal Bracketing
Koch, Alexander K. - 2009
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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Income Transfers, Welfare and Family Decisions
Andaluz, Joaquin - 2007
This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We develop a sequential game that, in a first stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer...
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Commitment to Self-Rewards
Koch, Alexander K. - 2009
Self-administered rewards are ubiquitous. They serve as incentives for personal accomplishments and are widely recommended as tools for overcoming self-control problems. However, it seems puzzling why self-rewards can work: the prospect of a reward has a motivating force only if the threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764474
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Self-Regulation Through Goal Setting
Koch, Alexander K. - 2008
Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral economics: i) Goals serve as reference points for performance. ii) Present-biased preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768179
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The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment to examine various spillover effects of Affirmative Action policies in the context of castes in India. We test a) if individuals who compete in the presence of Affirmative Action policies remain competitive in the same proportion after the policy has...
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Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-Rational Goals
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2021
We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a setting with non-rational goals. Goals motivate because they serve as reference points that make...
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