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The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of other-regarding preferences affect incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into...
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-selection, incentives and performance is based on a weak-link game devised by van Huyck et al. (1990). This is the optimal tool to … performance process within working groups. The literature on the sorting effect of incentives focuses almost exclusively on the … have an impact on the matching of employees and organizations and therefore the effectiveness of incentives. The …
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influence agents incentives and lead to a noncooperative game, even if the agents have to complete independent tasks. I show … substitutes. I solve for the optimal monetary incentives that complement the peer effects and show that the principal prefers …
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Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the quality received, experimental evidence...
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