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Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with … workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that …

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Cheating in the workplace: An experimental study of the impact of bonuses and productivity

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

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Corporate Governance, Bank Mergers and Executive Compensation

Liu, Yan; Padgett, Carol; Varotto, Simone - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2014

Using a sample of US bank mergers from 1995 to 2012, we observe that the pre-post merger changes in CEO bonus are … significantly negatively related to the strength of corporate governance within the bidding bank. This suggests that bonus …. Overall, our results are consistent with the notion that, unlike salary and long-term compensation, bonus compensation is not …

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Paying with Self-Chosen Goals : Incentives and Gender Differences

Dalton, Patricio Santiago; Noussair, Charles; Gonzalez … - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

Abstract: To boost employees’ performance, firms often offer monetary bonuses when production goals are reached. However, the evidence suggests that the particular level of a goal is critical to the effectiveness of this practice. Goals must be challenging yet achievable. Computing optimal...

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RISK SEEKING, NONCONVEX REMUNERATION AND REGIME SWITCHING

BARUCCI, EMILIO; MARAZZINA, DANIELE - In: International Journal of Theoretical and Applied … 18 (2015) 02, pp. 1550009-1

We investigate asset management in a regime switching framework when the fund manager aims to beat a certain target for the assets under management over an infinite horizon or over a finite horizon. We consider both a full information and a partial information setting. In a full information...

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Cheating in the workplace: An experimental study of the impact of bonuses and productivity

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

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You Don't Always Get What You Pay For

Schnedler, Wendelin - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2007

rewarding success, i.e., paying a bonus, increase effort in this case? I find that bonuses have not only an incentive but also …

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Wages and Learning in Internal Labor Markets: Evidence From a Taiwanese Company

Lin, Ming-Jen - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2006) 1, pp. 1370-1370

effects of levels, on both salary and bonus equations, are smaller under a fixed effects model than under an OLS (combined …

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The Role of Criticism in the Dynamics of Performance Evaluation Systems

Bourguignon, Annick; Chiapello, Eve - ESSEC Business School - 2003

Drawing on the concept of « trial », developed by French sociologists, this article analyzes the dynamics of employees’ performance evaluation systems, particularly those involving accounting performance measures. A case study is presented as an illustration of our proposal to consider these...

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Taxation and Regulation of Bonus Pay

Besley, Timothy J.; Ghatak, Maitreesh - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We explore the consequence for taxation and regulation of bonus pay when investors are protected by taxpayers from …-taking which are influenced by the structure of bonus pay. Bailouts lead to too little effort, too much risk taking and increase …

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