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Progressive taxation in a tournament economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014

of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any …

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Commitment in R&D tournaments via strategic delegation to overoptimistic managers

Englmaier, Florian - 2010

race nature of R&D tournaments. …

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …

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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886142

How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance

Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...

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Promotion Rat Race and Public Policy

Bjertnaes, Geir - CESifo - 2012

This study investigates whether excess effort to climb a career ladder justifies policy interventions. The answer depends on whether the government is able to levy a higher tax burden on career workers than on non-career workers. Both a tax on top income aimed at lowering the rewards of...

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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …

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The CEO Labour Market in China's Public Listed Companies

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Zhou, Minghai - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Using panel data for all of China's public listed firms over the period 2001-2010 we examine how firms have recruited and rewarded their executives over a decade of huge growth and turbulence. CEO pay is sensitive to firm performance, although the elasticities are lower than for the United...

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Incentive Effects in Asymmetric Tournaments Empirical Evidence from the German Hockey League

Nieken, Petra; Stegh, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants of a tournament are heterogeneous. We empirically test this prediction using a large dataset from the German Hockey League. Our results show that indeed the intensity of a game is lower if the teams are more...

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The efficacy of tournaments for non-routine team tasks

Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2023

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … also render teams' identity and image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a non …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495030