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Contract design with socially-attentive preferences

Koch, Simon; Sarbu, Miruna; Weinschenk, Philipp - 2019

The standard agency model assumes that the agent does not care how his decisions influence others. This is a strong assumption, which we relax. We find that, although monetary incentives are effective also with sociallyattentive agents, the principal may optimally set none. This could explain...

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Motivation and incentives in an online labor market

Fest, Sebastian; Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; … - 2020

An increasing number of workers participate in online labor markets. In contrast to traditional employment relationships within firms, the interaction between online workers and their employers are short and impersonal, which makes motivating online workers more challenging. We present results...

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Compensation policy in banking : the case of tournament incentives

Williams, Fatima Cardias; Williams, Jonathan - In: New Challenges for the Banking Industry : Searching for …, (pp. 9-46). 2023

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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market

Alleman, James H. - 2021

Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...

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Multisided markets and platform dominance

Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019

The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...

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How do sellers benefit from Buy-It-Now prices in eBay auctions?

Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2019

We investigate experimentally on eBay how sellers set prices in "Buy-It-Now" (BIN) auctions. We find that the eBay format leads to prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Moreover, our results reveal that the information available on eBay about buyer experience and...

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The perks of being in the smaller team : incentives in overlapping contests

March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019 - This version: January 6, 2019

We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously … determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in larger units are …-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intra-divisional contest is fiercer. Both effects lower the marginal utility of effort …

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The perks of being in the smaller team : incentives in overlapping contests

March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2021

We investigate overlapping contests in multi-divisional organizations in which an individual's effort simultaneously … determines the outcome of several contests on different hierarchical levels. We show that individuals in smaller units are …-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intradivisional contest is less fierce. Both effects induce a higher marginal utility of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341970