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The unprecedented uncertainty brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economic, social, and political environment. Leaders across the globe have felt the need for incorporating urgent measures to counter these challenges in a constructive way. This study sheds...
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weaken the motivation of releasing the "higher quality" signal to the capital market, that is to say, the signal transmission …
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incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility … increase the managers’ short-term risk-taking incentives and that those incentives contribute to the risk effectively taken by …
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Rankings are prevalent information and incentive tools in labor markets with strong competition for talent. In a dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs when performance in one task is incentivized and ranked...
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incentives and effort provision. To examine this issue, we design three experiments where subjects participate in two-player real …-effort tournaments with two prizes. Experiment 1 shows that subjects exert high effort even if there are no monetary incentives …, suggesting that non-monetary incentives are contributing to their effort choices. Moreover, increasing monetary incentives does …
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Monetary systems are elementary social institutions but have rarely been studied by contemporary political philosophers. The burgeoning economic literature on monetary systems, on the other hand, is hardly ever informed by philosophical considerations. This article provides a step towards...
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The average worker in the US needs to work more than a year to earn his or her CEO's daily wage. The well-accepted justification among economists for these huge wage gaps is the necessity to achieve economic efficiency, in terms of efficient allocation in the labor market and incentivizing...
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monetary incentives. We use a unique data set containing information on digital labor flows from a major global online labor … of econometric identification: a depreciation of a country's currency against the U.S. dollar increases the incentives of … model, we find that monetary incentives induced by depreciations of foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar are …
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