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Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 12-25

This paper investigates in a principal–agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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The counterintuitive effects of thank-you gifts on charitable giving

Newman, George E.; Jeremy Shen, Y. - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 5, pp. 973-983

Six experiments examined the effects of thank-you gifts on charitable giving. Results indicate that although people expect that the offer of thank-you gifts will increase donations, such offers actually reduce charitable donations. This effect was obtained across a wide variety of charities and...

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And the winner is…? The motivating power of employee awards

Neckermann, Susanne; Frey, Bruno S. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 46 (2013) C, pp. 66-77

This paper reports the findings from a survey experiment conducted online at IBM to assess the impact of employee …

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Awards as Incentives

Neckermann, Susanne; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

use. This paper presents an experiment conducted online at IBM to assess the impact of these kinds of extrinsic incentives …

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Decision Support for Target-Based Resource Allocation of Public Services in Multiunit and Multilevel Systems

Athanassopoulos, Antreas D. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 2, pp. 173-187

This paper is concerned with the problem of resource allocation and target setting in the provision of public services. The paper develops a network-based representation of multilevel resource management with equity, efficiency, and effectiveness being recognised as the fundamental objectives of...

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Contracting with altruistic agents under moral hazard

AUBERT, Cecile - Econometric Society - 2004

family) modifies incentive costs. We derive sufficient conditions for the principal to benefit from altruism. They bear on … how altruism affects the agent's marginal rate of substitution between monetary transfers and effort. We characterize the … contracts allowing to screen agents with different degrees of altruism for additive separable utilities. When two agents who are …

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The effects of information, social and financial incentives on voluntary undirected blood donations: Evidence from a field experiment in Argentina

Iajya, Victor; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 214-223

, we ran a large-scale, natural field experiment in Argentina, testing the effectiveness of information, social and …

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Work incentives and household insurance: Sequential contracting with altruistic individuals and moral hazard

Aubert, Cécile - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

Two agents sequentially contracts with different principals under moral hazard. If agents care for one another, the second principal gains by insuring them over first wages. Even with independent tasks, the first principal must offer riskier payments to induce effort.

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Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity - Evidence and Economic Applications

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...

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The Economics of Fairness, Reciprocity and Altruism â€“ Experimental Evidence and New Theories

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Chapter written for the Handbook of Reciprocity, Gift-Giving and Altruism …

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