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bonuses under a Management-by-Objectives (MBO) incentive scheme. Six years of personnel data of 177 managers in a German …
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talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … distorts incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
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talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … distorts incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
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This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...
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We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake...
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This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes. Subjects decide how many boxes to collect out of 100, one of which containing a bomb. Earnings increase linearly with the number of boxes accumulated but are zero if the bomb is...
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work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in … difficult times when the typical firm size shrinks. We find further that domestic and global competition for managers has … contributed to the rise in executive pay in Germany. Lastly, we show that CEOs in the banking sector are provided with incentives …
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Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental …
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experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …
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mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer …This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans. …
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