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Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2020

We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...

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Economists in the PITS?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be …

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Heterogeneous Beliefs and the Demand for D&O Insurance by Listed Companies

Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina Maria; Rees, Ray - 2014

This paper introduces a new rationale for the existence of Directors' and Officers' (D&O) insurance. We use a model with volatile stock markets where shareholders design compensation schemes that incentivize managers to stimulate short-term increases in stock prices that do not maximize long run...

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What is an award worth? : an econometric assessment of the impact of awards on employee performance

Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...

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Does the John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity and Citation Success?

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Torgler, Benno - 2013

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients' subsequent research activity and status compared to a...

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Citations and Incentives in Academic Contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2019

There are several empirical studies of ex post analysis of citations in academia. There is no ex ante analysis of citations. I consider a game-theoretic model of a contest between scholars on the basis of two widely-used measures of citations (i.e., the h-index and total citation count) and the...

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When a Nudge Backfires : Combining (Im)Plausible Deniability with Social and Economic Incentives to Promote Behavioral Change

Bolton, Gary - 2020

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We connect three streams of literature (nudging, social preferences, and social norms) to investigate the universality...

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Belief Elicitation : Limiting Truth Telling with Information or Incentives

Danz, David - 2020

examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …

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The Perks of Being in the Smaller Team : Incentives in Overlapping Contests

March, Christoph - 2020

consequences for the provision of incentives in organizations and the design of sports competitions …

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Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice production called “Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)”. Despite proven results in agronomic trials, our first experiment shows that AWD only saves water and increases profits in...

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