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Intertemporal effort provision in sequential tournaments : conference paper
Klein, Arnd Heinrich; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013
This paper analyzes intertemporal effort provision in two-stage tournaments. A principal with a fixed budget for prizes faces two risk-neutral agents. He observes noisy signals of effort in both periods. His goal is to maximize either total efforts (perfect substitutes) or the product of first-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338948
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Pay and job rank amongst academic economists in the UK : is gender relevant?
Mumford, Karen; Sechel, Cristina - 2019
academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022698
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Grind or gamble? : an experimental analysis of effort and spread seeking in contests
Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Wengström, Erik - 2017
We conduct a contest experiment where participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an uncertain performance variable. Subjects are treated with different prize schemes and in accordance with theory we observe substantial investments in spread. We find that both types of...
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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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The Economics of Ronald Coase
Veljanovski, Cento - 2020
Ronald Coase (1910-2013), who sadly died at the remarkable age of 102, made significant contributions to economics based on common sense and the detailed study of his topics. Coase was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991 “for his discovery and clarification of the significance...
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Economists Owe Ecology an Apology
Zetland, David - 2013
This apology is neither a wholesale rejection of economic thought and perspective nor an admission of error in our understanding of ecological values or human impacts on the environment. Life is complex. It's an apology for the unintended damage that's resulted from misapplying economic ideas:...
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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?
Mumford, Karen - 2019
academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868008
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Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests : evidence from the GRE test
Schlosser, Analia; Neeman, Zvika; Attali, Yigal - 2019
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low …
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Measuring the sorting and incentive effects of tournament prizes
Davies, Tim; Stoian, Adrian - In: The American economist : journal of Omnicron Delta … 59 (2014) 2, pp. 153-166
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Complacency and giving up across repeated tournaments : evidence from the field
Berger, Leslie; Klassen, Kenneth J.; Libby, Theresa; … - In: Journal of management accounting research : JMAR 25 (2013), pp. 143-167
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