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I show that stochastic contracts generate powerful incentives when agents suffer from probability distortion. When … implementing these contracts, the principal can target probability distortions in order to inflate the agent's perceived benefits … of exerting high levels of effort. This novel source of motivation is absent in contracts traditionally regarded as …
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This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make a firm in a competitive labor market face an upward-sloping supply curve of labor, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different...
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This paper deals with the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We outline a simple model of team production and provide preliminary results on linear incentive schemes in the presence of a social norm that may cause multiple equilibria. The effect of the social norm...
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