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Early studies often found that offering economic incentives for undertaking prosocial and intrinsically motivated … related to whether crowding out (or substitution) is likely to occur. In many cases, incentives succeed in encouraging more … prosocial behavior and are also cost-effective. However, although the substitution of external incentives for intrinsic …
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goals, is defined in the context of the theory of agency. The fiduciary program, a set of procedures for determining the …
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Comparison of three related adverse selection models is presented. There is a selfish owner, a selfish employee, and an imperfectly altruistic employee. Model 1 involves hiring choice. The owner hires the altruist because he produces the same for less pay due to his positive externality for the...
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The standard principal agent model considers monetary incentives only. It is assumed that money is more efficient than …) - though almost omnipresent - have so far escaped the attention of economists. They present extrinsic, non-monetary incentives … differences between monetary incentives and awards: in general, awards are cheap, lead to interpersonal relationships, are not …
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We develop a theory of incentives, wages, and employment in the context of team production. A central insight is that … incentives under moral hazard. We show that incentives and employment are complements for the principal when the positive effects …
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Production governance is not detached from the effects it produces. This paper suggests a framework to assess coordination structures and mechanisms in terms of their ability to include the publics and their interests, and to generate socio-economic value consistently with those interests. To...
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The attention market involves competition in which platforms acquire time from consumers, with bundles of content and ads, and sell ads to marketers to deliver messages during that time. This paper shows that the attention market solves a transaction-cost problem that prevents efficient exchange...
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Market power on each side of a multisided platform, whether in the form of increasing prices or decreasing quality, is constrained by the risk of losing sales on the other sides. That tends to weaken market power on each side and encourages platforms to keep prices lower and quality higher than...
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win-win solutions that help business firms to do well by doing good. With regard to theory, ordonomics offers a conceptual …
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divisions to replace high incentive pay to the division heads by incentives based on private benefits of control. In that …
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