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of the typical American firm. Variable pay is usually touted as a way to provide incentives to managers whose interests …
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relationships and on how firms provide incentives to employees. This literature has been very successful in generating models and …
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The paper studies how a person's concern for a future career may influence his or her incentives to put in effort or …
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What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the … strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and … small firms. We show that while one measure of CEO incentives (the dollar change in CEO wealth per dollar change in firm …
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This paper incorporates the sociological concept of group norms' into an economic analysis of pay systems. We use a behavioral microeconomic model and a unique survey of medical groups to examine the theoretical and empirical relationship between group norms and incentive pay. Our findings...
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: human capital, learning, and incentives. Considerable empirical work has addressed each of these theories with some success … the ability of researchers to ask even the most basic question, Do Incentives Matter? Second, the available theoretical …
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When economic agents make decisions on the basis of an information set containing both a continuous variable and a discrete signal based on that variable, theory suggests that the signal should have no bearing on behavior conditional on the variable itself. Numerous empirical studies, many based...
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compensation plans on personal productivity. We study an international law firm that moves from high-powered individual incentives … towards incentives for "leadership" activities that contribute to the firm's long run profitability. The effect of this change …
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Explicit financial incentives, especially pay-for-performance (P4P) incentives, have been extensively employed in …) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services, and whether physicians' responses differ by age, practice size and … responses are of modest size, physicians responded to some of the financial incentives but not the others. The differential …
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We attempt to make inferences about the elasticity of the government's demand for specific weapons by analyzing the statistical relationship between quantity and cost revisions across the population of major weapon systems, using data contained in the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports. The...
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