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dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs …
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This paper investigates whether a designer can improve both the incentive provision and the selection performance of a promotion contest by making the competition more (or less) dynamic. A comparison of static (one-stage) and dynamic (two-stage) contests reveals that this is not the case. A...
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This paper examines the effect of imperfect labor market competition on the efficiency of compensation schemes in a setting with moral hazard and risk-averse agents, who have private information on their productivity. Two vertically differentiated firms compete for agents by offering contracts...
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when team members' abilities are varied. Using a lab experiment, we examine how increasing competitive incentives affects …A debate among practicing managers is whether to use cooperative or competitive incentives for team production. While … competitive incentives may drive individual effort higher, they may also lead to less help and more sabotage; an issue exacerbated …
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provides incentives to increase effort in order to reach the playoffs and incentives to decrease effort once a team has been … incentives - they win more games when there is still a chance to reach the playoffs and lose more after being eliminated from …
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Building on cross-sectional data for Austrian high school students from fifth to twelfth grade, we investigate the correlations between socio-economic background variables and a comprehensive set of variables related to financial decision-making (i.e., financial knowledge, behavioral...
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the nature of provided incentives. We conduct a 'lab in the field' experiment with internal auditors during two large … performance of the unit that they are auditing. We vary incentives in the experiment from individual (piece rate) to competitive … that incentive-based compensation increases dishonest behavior among internal auditors: competitive incentives lead to …
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making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the …. -- individual behavior ; group membership ; team decision-making ; experiment …
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