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assumption, which we relax. We find that, although monetary incentives are effective also with sociallyattentive agents, the … monetary incentives. We also show that the principal benefits from having a socially-attentive agent and how she optimally …
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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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This note demonstrates how performance measure congruity and noise determine an agency’s total surplus within an linear agency framework with multiple tasks. It provides a decomposition of agency costs, leading back to a congruity index previously proposed in the literature. In addition,...
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separately and study issues of adverse selection (sorting) and moral hazard (incentives). We find that managers select contracts … incentives to do so (shirking). As a result, the market is skeptical of incentive benefits. Thus, while we find evidence of …
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A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in …. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. < …
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A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in …. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126557
leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … managers. The division managers' job is to create profitable investment projects. Giving the managers incentives to do so …' incentives. The resulting tradeoff between a better use of resources and diminished incentives for effort determines whether …
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When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a good allocation of effort across various …
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When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across …
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A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in …. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083234