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"Making it count" : evidence from a field experiment on assessment rules, study incentives and student performance ; conference paper
Chevalier, Arnaud; Dolton, Peter J.; Luehrmann, Melanie - 2013
This paper examines field experiment in which we encourage the use of computer-based tests (quizzes) through a set of non-financial incentives and test their effect on effort and performance of students. Our identification strategy exploits cross-cohort experimental variation in assessment rules...
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Termination as an incentive device
Grochulski, Borys; Zhang, Yuzhe - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 18 (2023) 1, pp. 381-419
In this paper, we study the conditions under which termination is a useful incentive device in the canonical dynamic … dominates termination if the principal's outside option is low and the agent's outside option is moderate. In suspension, the … suspension. Because the optimal use of suspension versus termination after poor performance can be highly sensitive to the …
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Ex-post service contract performance management
Forbes, Brian; Brady, Malcolm - In: International journal of business performance management 20 (2019) 2, pp. 130-144
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Fairness and luck : contract away or come what may?
Asay, H. Scott; Garett, Jace B.; Tayler, William B. - In: Journal of management accounting research : JMAR 35 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21
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The suboptimality of incentive contracts in a contracting model
Paroush, Jacob; Prager, Jonas - 1994
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Renegotiation and optimality in agency contracts
Ma, Ching-to Albert - 1991
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Renegotiation of sales contracts under moral hazard
Matthews, Steven A. - 1991
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The executive contract
Teague, Burton W. - 1978
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Design a contract! : A simple principal-agent problem as a classroom experiment
Gächter, Simon (contributor);  … - 2006
design a contract that consists of a fixed payment and an incentive component. In the second part, students take the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003321818
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Design a contract! : A simple principal-agent problem as a classroom experiment
Gächter, Simon (contributor);  … - 2006
design a contract that consists of a fixed payment and an incentive component. In the second part, students take the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003315162