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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether reputation element affects the decision relative performance of … following lab experiments bonus-incentive treatment without reputation, bonus-incentive treatment with reputation and trust …-incentive treatment with reputation. Findings The study finds that the reputation and fairness concerns, in contrast to self-interest, may …
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A smart contract can be defined as a computer program, stored on a blockchain, which allows a transaction or an agreement-defined ex-ante-to be self-executed when some conditions are met, and without the need for a central authority to enforce it. Even if this new technology is very promising,...
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We investigate the impact of observability of contracts between a plaintiff and his attorney on both the efficiency of the environmental conflict and the fairness of the resulting outcome from the environmental conflict. By including two specific game-theoretic models (an observable-contract...
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This article employs a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework to examine asymmetric information and limited contract enforcement in financial markets, where firms have access to both internal and external sources of finance. It considers limited enforcement of financial contract in the...
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In Germany, free collective bargaining was introduced after the Great War in November 1918. Tough, it has constitutional status, we can observe that the state monitors and sometimes steers the collective bargaining process. This can be explained by using the Principal Agent Model as an...
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We investigate the optimal regulation of energy production reflecting the long-term goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. We analyze the optimal regulatory incentives to foster the development of non-emissive electricity generation when the demand for power is served either by a monopoly or by...
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Motivated by markets for ''expertise,'' we study a bandit model where a principal chooses between a safe and risky arm. A strategic agent controls the risky arm and privately knows whether its type is high or low. Irrespective of type, the agent wants to maximize duration of experimentation with...
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, reputation, the efficacy of which is enhanced by consumers investing in "connectedness," with a formal mechanism, legal …
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In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding severance payments mandated by the employment protection legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of...
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The 2015 Civil Code of Procedure (Law 13.105) entailed extensive changes in the system of civil appeals in Brazil but, after more than seven years of its enactment, there hasn't been any empirical assessment regarding the impacts of the procedural reform on the propensity to appeal in civil...
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