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This study investigates whether increasing a superior's span of control reduces the effectiveness of capital budgeting in eliciting truthful reports. We conduct an experiment based on a modification of the capital budgeting setting described by Antle and Eppen (1985). This modification...
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Research in budgeting suggests that subordinates may exhibit economically significant degrees of honesty, in spite of pecuniary incentives to do otherwise. This study continues the exploration of honesty in budgeting along two dimensions. First, unlike prior experiments, we measure the...
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In participative budgeting settings, less informed superiors elicit information from privately informed subordinates. In these situations, subordinates' honesty preferences should substantially enhance the efficiency of the budgeting process. In fact, recent research on budgeting suggests that...
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This study examines the behavioral impact of an information system, and how that impact varies with the information system's precision, in an internal reporting environment. In order to examine behavioral effects, we do not permit the owner to contract on the system's output. We propose that a...
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One of the potential ways in which team based compensation can lead to improved performance is through superior risk sharing among individuals. However, past research does not provide encouraging results regarding the ability of team to affect risk-taking behavior. I report the results of an...
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We report the results of an experiment designed to examine investment project selection under promotion incentives, modeled as tournament contracts. For a given expected return, the owner prefers investments with lower systematic risk. Therefore, to the extent managers select investments other...
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This study examines the effects of risk preference and loss aversion on individual responses to differently framed, yet economically equivalent, incentive contracts. We extend prior research by examining contracts with combinations of bonus, penalty, and clawback incentives. Contracts framed as...
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