Search Results - subject:"optimal effort"

Revealing private information in a patent race

Kocourek, Pavel - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589311

Distortion risk measures, ambiguity aversion and optimal effort

Robert, Christian; Thérond, Pierre-Emmanuel - HAL - 2014

We consider the class of concave distortion risk measures to study how choice is influenced by the decision-maker's attitude to risk and provide comparative static results. We also assume ambiguity about the probability distribution of the risk and consider a framework à la Klibanoff, Marinacci...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784091

Sociability, Altruism and Subjective Well-Being

Becchetti, Leonardo; Solferino, Nazaria; Tessitore, M. … - Econometica - 2014

The choice between performing a task today or procrastinating it until tomorrow or later is the building block of any economic action. In our paper we aim to enrich the theoretical literature on procrastination by outlining conditions for bad and good procrastination and looking at the special...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755774

Distortion risk measures, ambiguity aversion and optimal effort

Robert, Christian; Thérond, Pierre-Emmanuel - HAL - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821390

THE MULTI-FACES OF PROCRASTINATION

Solferino, Nazaria - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 2010

Often people procrastinate unpleasant tasks for immediate gratification in doing nothing today. Therefore many scholars have been engaged in designing incentive schemes to avoid it. We think the process is very complicated and many features need to be analyzed, as the subjective evaluations of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560391

Residential peer effects in higher education: does the field of study matter?

Brunello, Giorgio; de Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2008

Economists have a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying reduced-form college peer effects. In this paper we explore a candidate mechanism, the provision of school effort. We show that, when earnings reflect individual educational performance as well as the field of study selected at...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272754

Improving the Effort Concept: A Revision of the Traditional Approach in the Context of Controlled Dynamic Stochastic Environments

DAN, PROTOPOPESCU - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2008

The objective of this paper is to re-evaluate the attitude to effort of a risk-averse decision- maker in an evolving environment. In the classical analysis, the space of efforts is generally discretized. More realistic, this new approach employes a continuum of effort levels. The pres- ence of...

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Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter?

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

: peer effects, random assignment, Italy, fields of study, optimal effort Corresponding author: Giorgio Brunello … individual educational performance as well as the field of study selected at college, optimal effort chosen by students varies … earnings – compared to other fields of study – should increase optimal effort and hence the peer effect among students …

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