employee effort is the amount of discretion offered at work; (b) pay incentives and ‘gift exchanges’ are the most important … motivators; (c) the use of monitoring and Taylor-type assembly lines are the least effective incentives; and (d) the optimal …

than the mainland market. Hong Kong companies generally provide strong incentives to executives via equity …-based compensation. Have cross-listed companies learned from Hong Kong firms about adopting these strong executive incentives? The …-owned companies and private companies, as cross-listing may have a greater impact on executive incentives in state-owned companies …

-neutral. In each of two periods, the agent can exert unobservable effort, leading to success or failure. Incentives provided in …

malnutrition. I find that combining incentives to workers and information to mothers reduces weight-for-age malnutrition by 4.2% in …

Over the last decade many districts have implemented performance pay incentives to reward teachers for improving … performance pay incentives by working fewer hours per week at school. Performance pay also decreases participation in unpaid …

Kong companies generally provide strong incentives to executives via equity-based compensation. Have cross-listed companies … learned from Hong Kong local firms in adopting strong executive incentives? The evidence from this study suggests that top … exhibit different patterns of executive incentives. …

We study optimal incentives in a principal-agent problem in which the agent's outside option is determined endogenously … obtaining this raise gives the agent an incentive to exert effort, which reduces the need for standard incentives, like bonuses … eliminates the need for standard incentives. …