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Performance pay and risk aversion
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2006
A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the first trade-off. Due to lack of...
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Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision
Staal, Klaas - 2006
In this paper I examine the incentives of regions to unite, to separate and to provide public goods. Separation allows … excessive incentives for public good provision as well as excessive incentives for separation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365871
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Economic incentives and gender differences in work absence behavior
Broström, Göran; Palme, Mårten; Johansson, Per-Olov - 2002
of economic incentives on work absence behavior. We observe work absence for each day during 1990 and 1991 for each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573006
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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance : a review of recent research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575185
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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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Economic analysis of information and contracts : essays in honor of John E. Butterworth
Feltham, Gerald A. (ed.) - 1988
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China and the evolution of the present climate regime
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo - 2003
cooperative effort to control GHG emissions can provide adequate incentives for the US to move back to the Kyoto process and … assesses the participation incentives for the major world countries and regions in these three regimes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592976
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Emissions trading regimes and incentives to participate in international climate agreements
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo - 2003
This paper analyses whether different emissions trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a … designing the emission trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011593001
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Endogenous minimum participation in international environmental treaties
Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen; Oreffice, Sonia - 2003
, where free-riding incentives are strong. Is a minimum participation rule a way to offset these free-riding incentives? Why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011593523
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Stable coalitions
Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen - 2002
relationship between the incentives to defect from a coalition, the size of the resulting equilibrium coalition structure, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596053