or responsiveness to financial incentives. In the frontier literature productive efficiency is assumed to be exogenously … with theoretical work on internal theory of the firm, which predicts that productivity compensation schemes will work well … production, as theory has hypothesized. The number of members in a group decreases both the quantity produced and the efficiency …

Individuals involved in basic research, like other workers, respond to incentives. Funding agencies provide implicit … incentives when they specify the rules by which awards are made. The following analysis is an exercise in understanding … incentives at an applied level. Specific rules are examined and analyzed to determine their incentive effects. For example, what …

revisions in evaluating the neutrality of different incentives. Another point we would make is that Boadway's results depend … these important elements of the problem, general results about the neutrality of different incentives can no longer be …

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used quality measures may stimulate an improvement in measured …

The paper emphasizes the role of institutions and incentives in the presence of externalities. An economy with multiple … effective institutions exist for overcoming coordination failure. External financing may weaken incentives for adjustment over … that strengthen incentives to provide effort. Uncertainty regarding future taxes reduces present effort and the …

theory of agency, notably income insurance and multi-task considerations, also shape pay policies. The conclusion we draw …

Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain … capitalist incentives to innovate. Moreover, many of the concerns that private firms fail to address social goals' can be …