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Is Emulation Good for You? The Ups and Downs of Rivalry

Léonard, Daniel; Long, Ngo Van - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2008

We model the emulation between two athletes whose goals are fixed by their coaches. The coaches in turn engage in a game of goal setting. We analyze the equilibriums of that game. For some range of parameter values, there are only mixed equilibriums, where one coach randomizes his goals while...

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Partage des coûts et tarification des infrastructures - Partage des coûts dans l'entreprise et incitations

Boyer, Marcel; Moreaux, Michel; Truchon, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

In order to choose the proper size of an infrastructure and to save as much as possible on investment costs, it is necessary for the responsible party (the Centre in the language of this report) to have access to information that is typically known only by some agents or partners who may use...

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L'Inspection des installations dangereuses; les expériences aux États-Unis et en France

Marcellis-Warin, Nathalie de; Peignier, Ingrid; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

credible so that the installations could see incentives to be in compliance with the regulation. Inspection is generally … carried out by the government who sets up the regulation. We have highlighted some economic incentives in order that the most …

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Male-Female Productivity Differentials: The Role of Ability and Incentives

Paarsch, Harry J.; Shearer, Bruce S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

We consider the response to incentives as an explanation for productivity differences within a firm that paid its …: one due to differences in ability and the other due to differences in the response to incentives. We apply this … that individuals do react differently to incentives. However, while the women in our sample reacted slightly more to …

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Ex Ante Incentives and Ex Post Flexibility

Boyer, Marcel; Robert, Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1996

Our objective in this paper is to illustrate and better understand the unavoidable arbitrage between incentives and …

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Inequity Aversion in Tournament

Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance …

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Output and Wages with Inequality Averse Agents

Demougin, Dominique; Fluet, Claude; Helm, Carsten - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

We analyze a two-task work environment with risk-neutral but inequality averse individuals. For the agent employed in task 2 effort is verifiable, while in task 1 it is not. Accordingly, agent 1 receives an incentive contract which, due to his wealth constraint, leads to a rent that the other...

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Piece Rates, Fixed Wages and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Shearer, Bruce S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

be 20%. Since planting conditions potentially affect incentives, structural econometric methods are used to generalize …

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L'économie des organisations : Mythes et réalités

Boyer, Marcel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1997

The analysis of organizational change and particularly of its impacts on incentives is neither simple nor easy. We …

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Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students

Montmarquette, Claude; Rullière, Jean-Louis; Villeval, … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate …, which occur in both compensation incentives and team composition. The results of a real effort experiment conducted with … managers within a large pharmaceutical company not only show that changes in compensation incentives affect performance but …

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