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Risk taking behavior in tournaments: evidence from the NBA

Grund, Christian; Höcker, Jan; Zimmermann, Stefan - 2010

We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season …

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All-In or checked-out? : disincentives and selection in income share agreements

Madonia, Greg; Smith, Austin C. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 161 (2019), pp. 52-67

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Why pay for jobs (and not for tasks)?

Czerny, Achim Ingo; Fosgerau, Mogens; Jost, Peter-J.; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 168 (2019), pp. 419-433

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The firm as the locus of social comparisons: Internal labor markets versus up-or-out

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012

We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion hierarchies: (i) internal labor markets, in which agents have a...

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Examination of the individual competencies that differentiate results in direct sales

Sypniewska, Barbara A. - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 83-100

The importance of knowledge and skills in meeting new challenges in production and distribution is particularly evident in today’s market, which is characterized by a saturation of products and strong competition. To be successful in the market, companies must stand out and be creative and...

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Optimizing incentive plan design: A case study

Levenson, Alec; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; Benson, George - 2011

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

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Low interest rates and executive risk-taking incentives : evidence from the United States

Castro, Paula; Tascon, Maria T.; Castaño, Francisco J.; … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 24 (2021) 4, pp. 324-354

incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility … increase the managers’ short-term risk-taking incentives and that those incentives contribute to the risk effectively taken by …

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American idol: should it be a singing contest or a popularity contest?

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2007

In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the...

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Citations in economics : measurement, uses and impacts

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles published in the "Top 5" journals in the 1970s and the 2000s, I examine distributions and life...

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The superstar effect in 100-meter tournaments

Hill, Brian C. - In: International journal of sport finance 9 (2014) 2, pp. 111-129

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