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On esteem-based incentives
Mazyaki, Ali; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018
Incentives based on esteem, honor and shame are increasingly popular and easy to use due to modern surveillance … Tirole (2011) to explore the effect of esteem-based incentives and their interaction with traditional monetary incentives. We … show that esteem-based incentives can indeed lead to a loss of control by generating multiple equilibria, some of which …
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Incentives for Motivated Experts in a Partnership
Liu, Ting - 2018
A Principal has a set of projects, each having different benefit potentials, and each requiring a basic technology from one of two experts and time inputs from both experts. Experts enjoy motivation utilities from production, but have private information of their own motivation preferences and...
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Competitive Balance : Information Disclosure and Discrimination in an Asymmetric Contest
Clark, Derek J. - 2020
We study a design problem for an effort-maximizing principal in a two-player contest with two dimensions of asymmetry. Players have different skill levels and an information gap exists, as only one player knows the skill difference. The principal has two policy instruments to redress the lack of...
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A matching model of the academic publication market
Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim; Vranceanu, Radu P. - 2010
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A matching model of the academic publication market
Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim; Vranceanu, Radu P. - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 167 (2011) 4, pp. 708-725
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Information sharing in contests
Kovenock, Daniel J.; Morath, Florian; Münster, Johannes - In: Journal of economics & management strategy : JEMS 24 (2015) 3, pp. 570-596
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What drives fraud in a credence goods market : evidence from a field study
Rasch, Alexander; Waibel, Christian - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of four key economic variables on an expert firm’s incentive to defraud its customers in a credence goods market: the level of competition, the expert firm’s financial situation, its competence, and its reputational concerns. We use and complement the...
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What drives fraud in a credence goods market? : evidence from a field study
Rasch, Alexander; Waibel, Christian - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of four key economic variables on an expert firm's incentive to defraud its customers in a credence goods market: the level of competition, the expert firm's financial situation, its competence, and its reputational concerns. We use and complement the dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507685
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Incentive schemes, private information and the double-edged role of competition for agents
Bannier, Christina E.; Feess, Eberhard; Packham, Natalie - 2014
This paper examines the effect of imperfect labor market competition on the efficiency of compensation schemes in a setting with moral hazard, private information and risk-averse agents. Two vertically differentiated firms compete for agents by offering contracts with fixed and variable...
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