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The existing literature on the comparison of tournaments and piece rates as alternative incentive schemes has focused on the case of unlimited liability. However, in practice real workers' wealth is typically restricted. Therefore, this paper compares both schemes under the assumption of limited...
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incentives and accordingly is not in the principal’s interest. In this paper I compare two different designs of a collective …
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By enriching a principal-agent model it is shown that the introduction of monetary incentives may reduce an agent … convictions of others, high powered incentives signal that not sticking to agreements is a widespread behavior and may lead to …
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We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that if the agent faces limited liability and there is an incentive problem the principal prefers not to impose such a clause if and only if the...
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ex-post inefficient, it provides entrepreneurs with high-powered incentives ex ante. We show that two types of equilibria …
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incentives. Using detailed information on code contributions and project membership, we classify developers into distinct groups …
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here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model … of participation and fertility on a sample of French women. Our results suggest that fertility responds to incentives in … a non-negligible way. The results, however, also have some puzzling features: financial incentives appear to have much …
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Experimental economics is used to investigate two important hypotheses proposed in the economics literature on tournaments. Specifically, we test for a hypothesized “disincentives effect” which can occur in tournaments with mixed ability agents. We also test the well known hypothesis that,...
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of per capita consumption that would be necessary if the first strategy was adopted would undermine the incentives for …
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