We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used "quality" measures may stimulate an improvement in measured …

Our study explores how managerial stock holdings and option holdings affect CEOs' income smoothing incentives. Given … provide evidence that income smoothing can be informative or opportunistic, depending on the incentives of CEOs …

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used quality measures may stimulate an improvement in measured …

We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used quality measures may stimulate an improvement in measured …

directed towards the effect of economic incentives. The effect of a decrease in the replacement level of the compulsory Swedish …

We studied the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they … may induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would choose in the absence of incentives. We … find suggestive evidence that financial incentives linked to commonly used "quality" measures may stimulate an improvement …

Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal … motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that … sources of incentives to best induce effort from the agent. Analyzing extended versions of the model allows us to examine how …