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reform and research. We primarily focus on issues relating to transparency and the measurement of risk and how these are … affected by management incentives that are often misaligned with the incentives of those who are exposed in various ways to the … risk being measured. In the aftermath of the crisis many have called for increased transparency; we suggest that while …
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The average worker in the US needs to work more than a year to earn his or her CEO's daily wage. The well-accepted justification among economists for these huge wage gaps is the necessity to achieve economic efficiency, in terms of efficient allocation in the labor market and incentivizing...
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Multiple studies suggest that, contrary to economic rationale, offering monetary incentives to complete a task can … the role of non-monetary incentives in prosocial behavior. Specifically, we give 245 pairs of high school students … different incentives to collect donations for charity: lowmonetary incentives (1% of the total donations collected), high …
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incentives and effort provision. To examine this issue, we design three experiments where subjects participate in two-player real …-effort tournaments with two prizes. Experiment 1 shows that subjects exert high effort even if there are no monetary incentives …, suggesting that non-monetary incentives are contributing to their effort choices. Moreover, increasing monetary incentives does …
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