reduces a colleague's marginal cost of effort, and synergy to be the sum of the (unidimensional) influence parameters across a … depends only on total synergy and not individual influence parameters. An increase in synergy raises total effort and total … synergistic agents. An increase in the synergy between two agents can lead to the third agent being excluded from the team, even …

The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem …. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of … mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …

advances in the estimation and evaluation of DSGE models, discusses current challenges, and provides avenues for future …