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processes and the inherent variability of competitors' effort choices introduce uncertainty to tournament settings with respect … uncertainty leads to more excess of effort if compared to optimality (Avrahami et al., 2007). This paper experimentally … responses, and mainly overestimate their opponents. Leveling uncertainty influences both overshooting and the precision of …
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the inherent variability of competitors' effort choices introduce uncertainty to tournament settings with respect to the … outcome.If heterogeneous agents interact in such a setting, experimental results suggest thatincreasing uncertainty leads to … mainly overestimate their opponents. Leveling uncertainty inuencesboth overshooting and the precision of beliefs. …
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depends stochastically on (constant) effort, the number of times that are checked to assign the bonus affects the level of un-certainty … in the selection process. Uncertainty, in turn, is expected to increase the efforts made by competing agents (Cowen and … of uncertainty (sampling occasions of productions, 1 or 3), cost of production (high or low), cost symmetry (asymmetric …
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depends stochastically on (constant) effort, the number of times that are checked to assign the bonus affects the level of un-certainty … in the selection process. Uncertainty, in turn, is expected to increase the efforts made by competing agents (Cowen and … of uncertainty (sampling occasions of productions, 1 or 3), cost of production (high or low), cost symmetry (asymmetric …
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firms. Reduced uncertainty or labor market frictions lower the wage differentials, thereby enhancing young firm dynamics and …
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firms. Reduced uncertainty or labor market frictions lower the wage differentials, thereby enhancing young firm dynamics and …
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This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The con- tract may contain two types of incentives for...
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Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...
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This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The contract may contain two types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326344