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Are You Paying Your Employees to Cheat? An Experimental Investigation
Cadsby, C. Bram; Song, Fei; Tapon, Francis - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2008
piece-rate system and a tournament-based bonus system using a laboratory experiment with salient financial incentives. An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005429825
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Feedback in Tournaments under Commitment Problems: The-ory and Experimental Evidence
Gürtler, Oliver; Harbring, Christine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that in equilibrium the principal reveals in-termediate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785932
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Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution: An Experimental Investigation
Berger, Johannes; Harbring, Christine; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557231
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The labor supply of fixed-wage workers : estimates from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2016
supply using a real effort experiment. Two results stand out. First, no one theory seems to fit the pooled data. On average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453435
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Strategic incomplete contracts : theory and experiments
Erkal, Nisvan; Wu, Steven Y.; Roe, Brian - 2014
We develop a model of strategic contractual incompleteness that identifies conditions under which principals might omit even costlessly verifiable terms. We then use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of the model. While it is well known that verifiability imperfections can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457849
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Respect as an Incentive
Eriksson, Tor - 2010
-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees' further effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137464
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Respect as an Incentive
Eriksson, Tor - 2010
-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees' further effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137518
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Does a Short-Term Increase in Incentives Boost Performance?
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017
competition affect agents\' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932925
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Progressive taxation in a tournament economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014
-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394004
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Complex Tax Incentives - An Experimental Investigation
Abeler, Johannes - 2013
How does tax complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment in … large or small incentive changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082004