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. Nevertheless, the incentives to replicate are seldom in place in the sciences, especially within the social sciences. We propose a …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment evaluating the effects of incentives on individuals' willingness to … goods as incentives, and estimates respondents' willingness to support the oldest food bank in the U.S …
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As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has...
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educator performance metrics and measures of student achievement. To mitigate incentives for coaching, incentive systems should … information about student achievement because they create no incentives for educators to take hidden actions that contaminate …
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We study the interplay of share prices and firm decisions when share prices aggregate and convey noisy information about fundamentals to investors and managers. First, we show that the informational feedback between the firm's share price and its investment decisions leads to a systematic...
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provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an environment where (1) scientists engage in multiple activities when …-monetary incentives; and (4) firms compete on the product market. We show that both the degree of knowledge spillovers and of market … competition affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to …
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incentives and limits of hard information verifiability. Using unique data where loans are based on hard information, and loan …
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I consider nonlinear taxation of income and bequests with a joy-of-giving bequest motive and explicitly characterize the estate tax rate structure that maximizes social planner's welfare function. The solution trades off correction of externality from giving and discouraging effort of children...
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Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this …
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) firms' incentives to contribute to the development and improvement of a standard, and (b) firms' decision to disclose the …
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