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Pledging, praising and shaming : experimental labour markets in Ghana
Davies, Elwyn; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017
research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607573
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Fairness and motivation : fair treatment creates incentives, and is beneficial for workers and the frim
Falk, Armin - 2014
incentives - "Pay them more and they will work harder." However, a large and growing body of empirical evidence from laboratory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413663
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Chapter 56 Values of games with infinitely many players
Neyman, Abraham - In: Handbook of game theory with economic applications : …, (pp. 2121-2167). 2002
This chapter studies the theory of value of games with infinitely many players.Games with infinitely many players are models of interactions with many players. Often most of the players are individually insignificant, and are effective in the game only via coalitions. At the same time there may...
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The Ex Ante Incentive Compatible Core in Exchange Economies With and Without Indivisibilities
Forges, Francoise - 2021
The ex ante incentive compatible core of an exchange economy with private information is the (standard) core of a … incentive compatible core can be empty, even if utility functions are quasi-linear. If, in addition to quasi-linearity, further … assumptions are made (like independent private values), the non-emptiness of the core follows nevertheless from d'Aspremont and …
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Teams as superstars : effort and risk taking in rank-order tournaments for women and men
Lackner, Mario - 2016
This article analyzes top-level basketball competitions and measures the effect of superstar presence on effort provision in rank-order tournaments. I extend the previous literature to team competitions for male and female teams, as well as different institutional settings over a long period of...
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Egalitarianism in Nontransferable Utility Games
Dietzenbacher, Bas - 2017
of coalitions are explicitly taken into account. We formulate conditions under which it leads to a core element and …
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Favoring the winner or loser in repeated contests
Ridlon, Robert; Shin, Jiwoong - In: Marketing science : the marketing journal of the … 32 (2013) 5, pp. 768-785
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Incentives and strategic behavior of professional boxers
Akin, Zafer; Issabayev, Murat; Rizvanoghlu, Islam - In: Journal of sports economics 24 (2023) 1, pp. 28-49
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Adding a stick to the carrot? : the interaction of bonuses and fines
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2007
actually pay the announced bonus. This offers a new explanation for why explicit and implicit incentives are substitutes rather …
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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 62 (2016) 6, pp. 1645-1667
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