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Tournament fever and the perception of strategic uncertainty in performance contests
Uske, Tobias - 2008
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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On the incentive effects of uncertainty in monitoring agents: a theoretical and experimental analysis
Avrahami, Judith; Güth, Werner; Kareev, Yaakov; Uske, … - 2007
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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Social Relations and Relational Incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - 2012
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...
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Paid to quit
Dur, Robert; Schmittdiel, Heiner - 2013
Inspired by a recent observation about an online retail company, this paper explains why a firm may find it optimal to offer an exit bonus to recent hires so as to induce self-selection. We study a double adverse selection problem, in which the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment...
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Leniency Bias in Long-Term Workplace Relationships
Tichem, Jan - 2013
This paper studies how firms can efficiently incentivize supervisors to truthfully report employee performance. To this end, I develop a dynamic principal-supervisor-agent model. The supervisor is either selfish or altruistic towards the agent, which is observable to the agent but not to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328332
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Workers' participation in wage setting and opportnistic behaviour: Evidence from a gift-exchange experiment
Franke, Jörg; Gurtoviy, Ruslan; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014
Our study analyzes the consequences of workers' participation in the wage setting process on effort exertion. The experimental design is based on a modified giftexchange game where the degree of workers' involvement in the wage setting process is systematically varied among the workers. The...
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Zur Empfehlung von Abfindungsobergrenzen für Vorstandsmitglieder
Schottmüller-Einwag, Ute; Dilger, Alexander - 2019
In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, ob Vorstandsabfindungen von börsennotierten Unternehmen durch die Empfehlung 4.2.3 Abs. 4 Satz 1 des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex in ihrer Höhe begrenzt werden. Die Analyse umfangreicher empirischer Daten zu Entsprechenserklärungen aller...
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Mission, motivation, and the active decision to work for a social cause
Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa - 2019
The mission of a job does not only affect the type of worker attracted to an organisation, but may also provide incentives to an existing workforce. We conducted a natural field experiment with 267 short-time workers and randomly allocated them to either a prosocial or a commercial job. Our data...
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Corporate governance reporting: Compliance with upper limits for severance payments to members of executive boards in Germany
Dilger, Alexander; Schottmüller-Einwag, Ute - 2019
This paper examines how corporate governance reporting corresponds to actual conduct regarding severance payment caps for prematurely departing members of companies' executive boards in Germany. For this purpose, we first evaluate the declarations of conformity for all companies listed in the...
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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting: productivity, preferences and gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2006
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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