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What does US money market mutual fund reform portend for the European Union?

Lewis, Craig M.; Schlag, Christian - Research Center SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for … - 2014

On 23 July 2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) passed the "Money Market Reform: Amendments to Form PF ," designed to prevent investor runs on money market mutual funds such as those experienced in institutional prime funds following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The...

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A conceptual framework to investigate the optimisation of financial incentive mechanisms in construction projects

Rose, Timothy M.; Manley, Karen - 2005

Implementation of financial incentive mechanisms in the contractual arrangements of a construction project can impact significantly on the motivation of contractors and hence project performance. Positive incentives (as a component of the project delivery strategy) aim to motivate contractors to...

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Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Job quality may usefully be thought of as depending on both job values (how much workers care about different job outcomes) and the job outcomes themselves. Here both crosssection and panel data are used to examine changes in job quality in OECD countries over the 1990s. Despite rising wages and...

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How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents

Ichino, Andrea; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending the relationship increases over time. The intuition is simple: by monitoring too much we learn less on how...

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Short-term leaders should make long-term appointments

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa - In: International Tax and Public Finance 14 (2007) 1, pp. 55-69

his effort on an appointment, the organization’s performance may increase when the minimum term for an appointment …

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Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Learning versus Re-election Concerns

Le Borgne, Eric; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

is initially uninformed about the officeholder’s ability. If office-holder effort and ability interact in the … determination of performance in office, then an office-holder has an incentive to learn, i.e., raise effort so that performance … more than offset the positive ‘re-election concerns’ effect of elections on effort, implying higher effort with appointment …

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Returns to Inventors

Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...

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Returns to Inventors

Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

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Monopsony, Efficiency Wages and Minimum Wages

FitzRoy, Felix R. - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1999

with compensating effort to maintain utility suggest that a positive employment effect of a small minimum wage is possible …

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Why Competition may Discourage Students from Learning? A Behavioral Economic Analysis

Wang, X. Henry; Yang, Bill - In: Education Economics 11 (2003) 2, pp. 117-128

becomes a major concern, competition may motivate students to make a low effort - a strategy to win by not losing. …

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