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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016
reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990864
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Aligning Ambition and Incentives
Koch, Alexander K.; Peyrache, Eloic - 2021
Labor turnover creates longer term career concerns incentives that motivate employees in addition to the short term monetary incentives provided by the current employer. We analyze how these incentives interact and derive implications for the design of incentive contracts and organizational...
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Reputation vs Selection Effects in Markets with Informational Asymmetries
Alysandratos, Theodore; Georganas, Sotiris; Sutter, Matthias - 2022
can disentangle self-selection from reputation effects. Based on 476 taxi rides with four different types of taxis, we can … show strong reputation effects on the prices and service quality of drivers, while there is practically no evidence of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242288
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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061931
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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Benson, Alan - 2015
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in … reputation, we find that good-reputation employers attract work of the same quality but at twice the rate as bad-reputation … employers. This is the first clean, field evidence on the value of employer reputation. It can serve as collateral against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011179
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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2013
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations is long, but recent research has focused on altruism, reputational concerns, and material...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753831
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On Reputation : A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity
Fehr, Ernst; Brown, Martin; Zehnder, Christian - 2021
price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the positive effects of social preferences on contract enforcement by … interactions, suggesting that it may aggravate price rigidities. Surprisingly, reputation in fact weakens the wage and price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325011
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Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu
Kar, Saibal - 2011
immigration under continuous impact evaluation. However, of the several studies that dealt with patterns and consequences aspects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129911
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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2010
fundamental, properties in graph theory allow us to interpret the variation in the patterns of behavior that arise in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136030
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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2010
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137517