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Leniency Bias in Long-Term Workplace Relationships

Tichem, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper studies how firms can efficiently incentivize supervisors to truthfully report employee performance. To this end, I develop a dynamic principal-supervisor-agent model. The supervisor is either selfish or altruistic towards the agent, which is observable to the agent but not to the...

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Mean and Bold?

Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

merger economies into scale economies and increased incentives to fight inefficiencies. Although we detect a significant … absence of increased incentives to fight inefficiencies. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255577

Is More Entrepreneurship better?

Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

transaction costs is difficult to relate to these well-established dynamics. Our approach focuses on changing incentives to …

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Is More Entrepreneurship better?

Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

transaction costs is difficult to relate to these well-established dynamics. Our approach focuses on changing incentives to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513213

Economics: An Emerging Small World?

Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

individuals decide on whether to work alone or with others; this means that individual incentives should help us understand why …

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Energy Saving by Firms: Decision-Making, Barriers and Policies

Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

Promoting investments in energy saving technologies is an important means for achieving environmental goals. Unfortunately, the empirical evidence on success conditions of policies is scarce. Based on a survey among Dutch firms, this paper sets out to identify the factors that determine the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137331

Mean and Bold?

Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

variables. We classify the merger economies into scale economies and increased incentives to fight inefficiencies. Although we … of scale economies and the absence of increased incentives to fight inefficiencies. …

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Monitoring your Friends, Not your Foes: Strategic Ignorance and the Delegation of Real Authority

Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

's incentives to gather information in the first place. Both effects of monitoring are influenced by the interest alignment between …

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Energy Saving by Firms: Decision-Making, Barriers and Policies

Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

Promoting investments in energy saving technologies is an important means forachieving environmental goals. Unfortunately, the empirical evidence on successconditions of policies isscarce. Based on a survey among Dutch firms, this paper sets out to identify thefactors that determine the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256393

Monitoring your Friends, not your Foes: Strategic Ignorance and the Delegation of Real Authority

Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Sloof, Randolph; Siemens, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

worker. This allows her to better exploit the information gathered by the worker, but also reduces the worker's incentives to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256411