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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need … for motivated reasoning allows workers to hold substantially more optimistic beliefs and identify a causal link between … the exogenous variation in beliefs and the deferral of work to the future. This systematic belief-based delay of work …
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024
anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test … beliefs among workers, which causally increase the deferral of work to the future. The roots for biased beliefs stem from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517966
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Committing to incentives: Should the decision to sanction be revealed or hidden?
Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - 2010
Sanctions are widely used to promote compliance in principal-agent-relationships. While there is ample evidence confirming the predicted positive incentive effect of sanctions, it has also been shown that imposing sanctions may in fact reduce compliance by crowding-out intrinsic motivation. We...
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Corporate social responsibility in the work place: Experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2011
We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant, CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. We are testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281665
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Committing to incentives : should the decision to sanction be revealed or hidden?
Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - 2010
Sanctions are widely used to promote compliance in principal-agent-relationships. While there is ample evidence confirming the predicted positive incentive effect of sanctions, it has also been shown that imposing sanctions may in fact reduce compliance by crowding-out intrinsic motivation. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944178
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Corporate social responsibility in the work place : experimental evidence on CSR from a gift-exchange game
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2011
We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant, CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. We are testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230365
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What drives motivated agents? : the "right" mission or sharing it with the principal
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015
Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401176
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Worker or shirker : who evades more taxes? ; a real effort experiment
Bühren, Christoph; Kundt, Thorben C. - 2013
With the help of a real effort experiment, we analyze if tax evasion depends on the amount of effort invested to generate income. In three treatments, subjects were either endowed with income or had to work moderately or hard to earn it. In line with prospect theory, subjects evaded more taxes...
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You are in charge : experimentally testing the motivating power of holding a judicial office
Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2016
Apparently judges’ decisions are not motivated by maximizing their own profit. The literature uses two strategies to explain this observation: judges care about the long-term monetary consequences for themselves, or individuals who are more strongly motivated by the common good self-select...
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How creative are you? : an experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - 2015
Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...
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