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Endogenous governance transparency and product market competition

Hidalgo-Cabrillana, Ana - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 113-136

This paper analyzes the determinants of governance transparency. In our model, entrepreneurs optimally decide the precision of their earning reporting by trading off the possibility of expropriating profits against the capacity to attract external funding.We find that information is only...

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Financial incentives and loan officer behavior : multitasking and allocation of effort under an incomplete contract

Behr, Patrick; Drexler, Alejandro; Gropp, Reint; … - 2014 - This version: July 04, 2014

constitutes a rational response to a time allocation problem, their reaction to incentives appears myopic in other dimensions. …

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Productivity-target difficulty, target-based pay, and outside-the-box thinking

Webb, R. Alan; Williamson, Michael G.; Zhang, Yue - In: The accounting review : a publication of the American … 88 (2013) 4, pp. 1433-1457

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Incentives and creativity in groups

Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … also when individuals work together to solve such problems. We do not find a negative impact of incentives on group … performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …

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Incentives for prosocial activities : economic incentives can motivate prosocial behavior, but may shift attention away from valuable altruistic activities

Lacetera, Nicola - 2016

Early studies often found that offering economic incentives for undertaking prosocial and intrinsically motivated … related to whether crowding out (or substitution) is likely to occur. In many cases, incentives succeed in encouraging more … prosocial behavior and are also cost-effective. However, although the substitution of external incentives for intrinsic …

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The optimal income tax : restatement and extensions

Homburg, Stefan - 2002

The paper presents an axiomatic restatement of the standard approach to nonlinear income taxation. It assumes a finite number of taxpayers rather than an uncountable infinity. Analytical tools are developed which facilitate proving the existence of tax schedules that are continuous,...

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