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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...
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When the performances of agents are correlated (because of a common random component), contracts that use information on both the relative and absolute performances of agents theoretically outperform rank-order tournaments and piece-rate schemes. Although the theoretical advantage of such...
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This paper seeks to provide theoretical foundations to address the effects of the asymmetric information inherent to contractual relationships between teams and players in professional team sports. Particularly, a Shapiro-Stiglitz efficiency model version along with Rosen’s insight about...
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Incentives in 2007 to create favorable investment climate for the entrance of Nigeria into the biofuel sector. The paper assessed … include additional financial incentives such as grants and subsidy to complement the tax waivers (income, import duty, VAT …
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discussed within a broader theoretical framework concerning the effects of extrinsic incentives on altruistic behavior. …
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This study investigates the incentives and barriers for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to participate in … demonstrate that the incentives for Dutch SMEs to participate in European research programs derived from the resource …
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incentives GPs would require to move there. GPs were asked to choose between two job options or to stay at their current job as … incentives equivalent to 64% of current average annual personal earnings ($116,000). Moving to a town with a population between 5 …,000 and 20,000 people would require incentives of at least 37% of current annual earnings, around $68,000. The size of …
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the two parties and that both of them provide non-contractible efforts which diminish their incentives. …
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We propose a dynamic auction mechanism for efficiently allocating multiple heterogeneous indivisible items. These goods can be split into two distinct sets so that items in each of the two sets are substitutes but are complementary to items in the other. The seller has a reserve value for each...
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Against the background of growing media interest in professional soccer, this paper proposes a moral hazard model with costly state verification to explain how rule changes affecting the reward scheme of team performance impact on the success of managerial change. As has been shown recently...
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