Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 55
Cover Image
All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - 2014
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468173
Cover Image
Country of origin effects on the average annual values of NHL player contracts
Fenn, Aju J.; Gerdes, Lucas; Rothstein, Samuel - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 7 (2019) 2, pp. 1-11
Using data from 2005 to 2016, this paper examines if players in the National Hockey League (NHL) are being paid a … with the existing literature, we use lagged performance statistics and dummy variables to control for the type of NHL … of NHL player salaries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013200202
Cover Image
The effects of gift vouchers and environmental certificates on the demand for a collective DRT system
Minnich, Aljoscha; Rau, Holger A.; Schlüter, Jan Christian - In: Transportation 49 (2021) 6, pp. 1683-1714
This paper analyzes in a large-scale field experiment (N = 1425) whether gift vouchers stimulate the use of a demand responsive transportation (DRT) system. This scenario is compared to a situation where customers receive environmental certificates, which report the saved carbon dioxide as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501973
Cover Image
Anreizwirkungen und Bewertung von Erfolgsbeteiligungen im Portefeuillemanagement
Gillenkirch, Robert M. - 1997
Performance fees for portfolio managers are designed to align the managers' goals with those of the investors and to motivate managers to aquire superior information and to make better investment decisions. A part of the literature analyzes performance fees on the basis of market valuation. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316252
Cover Image
Incentive effects in tournaments with heterogeneous competitors: An analysis of the Olympic Rowing Regatta in Sydney 2000
Bach, Norbert; Gürtler, Oliver; Prinz, Joachim - In: Management Revue 20 (2009) 3, pp. 239-253
A large part of the theoretical tournament literature argues that rank-order tournaments only unfold their incentive effects if the contestants all have similar prospects of winning. In heterogeneous fields, the outcome of the tournament is relatively clear and the contestants reduce their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318184
Cover Image
Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262445
Cover Image
Tournament fever and the perception of strategic uncertainty in performance contests
Uske, Tobias - 2008
As firms implement tournament bonus reward schemes, mainly the idea is to introduce competition amongst their agents in the order to promote their performance. Tournaments in which agents compete for a bonus by investing effort, are frequently applied, e.g., in development races, political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263891
Cover Image
Labour supply and taxes
Meghir, Costas; Phillips, David - 2008
In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268568
Cover Image
The incentive effects of long-term contracts on performance - Evidence from a natural experiment in European Football
Gerfin, Michael; Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheusser, Gerd - 2010
The empirical analysis of the impact of long-term contracts on performance is challenging for two reasons: first, it is difficult to get adequate performance measures and second, potentially negative incentive effects of long-term contracts are countervailed by selection effects when workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270241
Cover Image
Labour supply and taxation
Meghir, Costas; Phillips, David - 2008
In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275706