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Incentives in the Welfare State: Lessons for would-be welfare states
Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
This paper deals with economic incentives and welfare-state arrangements in OECD countries. This paper emphasises what … interplay between incentives and social norms among individuals, including endogenous changes in these norms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600199
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Competition in the Cloud: Unleashing Investment and Innovation Within and Across Platforms
COWEN, Tim; GAWER, Annabelle - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 85, pp. 45-62
platforms strategy to expose the incentives and impediments to innovation in cloud computing. It assesses how European policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602885
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Grandparents as Guards: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Inheritance and Post Marital Residence in a World of Uncertain Paternity
Guha, Brishti - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2012
the paternity confidence of the young women's husbands and hence their productive incentives, is crucial. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603521
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Contract Design to Sequester Carbon in Agricultural Soils
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Roussel, Sébastien - HAL - 2010
policymaker has to arrange incentives as agricultural firms have private information and do not spontaneously switch to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603645
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Do Reputation Concerns Make Behavioral Biases Disappear? The Conjunction Fallacy on Facebook and Mechanical Turk
Devetag, Giovanna; Ceccacci, Francesca; Salvo, Paola De - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2013
run on Mechanical Turk, a popular online labor market, with monetary incentives. Adding a bonus for the correct answer … effects may indeed counteract the effect of monetary incentives. Our experiment casts doubts about the robustness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652497
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The Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Measuring IQ
Borghans, Lex; Meijers, Huub; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This research provides an economic model of the way people behave during an IQ test. We distinguish a technology that describes how time investment improves performance from preferences that determine how much time people invest in each question. We disentangle these two elements empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659259
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Does Analyst Stock Ownership Affect Reporting Behavior?
Johnston, Rick - In: Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies … 16 (2013) 02, pp. 1350008-1
analyst stock ownership, unlike other potential incentives, may not be a significant concern since in many cases multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661028
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Non-monetary incentives in online experiments
Vinogradov, Dmitri; Shadrina, Elena - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 3, pp. 306-310
Monetary incentives in online experiments are not always easy to implement. Yet online experiments are advantageous in … plausible results from online experiments by using non-monetary incentives like altruism and curiosity? We investigate the role … of non-monetary incentives in a simple Ellsberg-type experiment which can be easily compared to similar lab experiments. …
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Outcome interdependence shapes the effects of prevention focus on team processes and performance
Beersma, Bianca; Homan, Astrid C.; Kleef, Gerben A. Van; … - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 121 (2013) 2, pp. 194-203
Although the effects of regulatory focus on individual-level performance have often been studied, relatively little is yet known about team-level effects. Filling this void, we integrate the notion that promotion-focused individuals are concerned with progress and achievement, whereas...
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An empirical investigation on causes and effects of the Bullwhip-effect: Evidence from the personal care sector
Zotteri, Giulio - In: International Journal of Production Economics 143 (2013) 2, pp. 489-498
This paper analyses the empirical demand data for fast moving consumer goods to measure the Bullwhip-effect. The data consist of the sell-in from a large manufacturer to the retailers and the sell-out from a retailer to the consumers. Our findings show that the Bullwhip-effect can be...
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