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New paradigms in banking, financial markets and regulation?
Balling, Morten (ed.); Lierman, Frank (ed.);  … - New Paradigms in Money and Finance? <Veranstaltung> …; … - 2012
performance in financial institutions and in financial regulation and supervision all over the world. The contributors to the … decisionmakers have a better chance of showing good performance in the future. In essence, they are looking for new paradigms in …
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Incentive design and mis-allocated effort : conference paper
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2013 - Preliminary version
Incentives often distort behavior: they induce agents to exert effort but this effort is not employed optimally. This paper proposes a theory of incentive design allowing for such distorted behavior. At the heart of the theory is a trade-off between getting the agent to exert effort and ensuring...
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Wage floors, imperfect performance measures, and optimal job design : conference paper
Kragl, Jenny; Schöttner, Anja - 2013
aggregate performance measurement. Due to cost advantages of specialization, assigning the tasks to different agents is … production process. Imperfect performance measurement always lowers profit under multitasking, but may increase profit under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339385
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Multitasking and the benefits of objective performance measurement : evidence from a field experiment ; conference paper
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013 - Preliminary version
We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the … outset objective performance measures of pro fits in each branch were only available on the branch level and managers … to individual performance measures. We find a significant positive impact of objective performance measurement on effort …
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Strive to be first and avoid being last : an experiment on relative performance incentives ; conference paper
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2013
Managers often use tournament incentive schemes which motivate workers to compete for the top, compete to avoid the bottom, or both. In this paper we test the effectiveness and efficiency of these incentive schemes. To do so, we utilize optimal contracts in a principal-agent setting, using a...
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Do self-determined wages really improve employees performance? : evidence from a randomized field experiment : conference paper
Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014
right, while being paid the same wages as the first group. We find that performance is about 12% higher when employees self … performance decrease. An online follow-up survey reveals that the surprisingly high level of performance seems to be driven by …
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The heterogeneous effects of bonus pay on performance outcomes : evidence from personnel data ; conference paper
Sauermann, Jan - 2014
This study uses rich information on performance outcomes to estimate the effect of bonus pay on worker productivity. We … monetary bonuses upon achieving pre-defined performance thresholds. The results show that the bonus is associated with an … increase of a third of a standard deviation in the underlying performance outcome. This effect is mostly driven by low …
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Crisis management at cross-roads : challenges facing cross-border financial institutions at the EU level : a joint publication with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Ayadi, Rym (ed.); Lierman, Frank (ed.); Balling, Morten (ed.) - Conference "Crisis Management at Cross-Roads" <2009, …; … - 2010
On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.
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