Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 132
Cover Image
The hold-down problem and the boundaries of the firm : lessons from a hidden action model with endogenous outside option
Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001672586
Cover Image
Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data
Sunde, Uwe (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001838248
Cover Image
The hold-down problem and the boundaries of the firm : lessons from a hidden action model with endogenous outside option
Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance arguments nor depends on ownership structure. We analyse a repeated hidden action model in which the actions of a risk neutral agent determine his future outside option. Consequently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410683
Cover Image
Potential, Prizes and Performance : Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data
Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319622
Cover Image
Global Evidence on Economic Preferences
Falk, Armin - 2017
This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970616
Cover Image
The nature and predictive power of preferences : global evidence
Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433039
Cover Image
The nature and predictive power of preferences : global evidence
Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441044
Cover Image
The nature and predictive power of preferences : global evidence
Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2015
This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387557
Cover Image
Global evidence on economic preferences
Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2018
This paper studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899246
Cover Image
Global evidence on economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762087