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efficiency, while incidental emotions can impair it. Signals in specific brain areas can be a trigger precipitating a bubble …
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Who should own public projects? We report data from a laboratory experiment with 480 participants that was designed to test Besley and Ghatak's (2001) public-good version of the Grossman-Hart-Moore property rights theory. Consider two parties, one of whom can invest in the provision of a public...
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On-the-job leisure is a pervasive feature of the modern workplace. We studied its impact on work performance in a laboratory experiment by either allowing or restricting Internet access. We used a 2×2 experimental design in which subjects completing real-effort work tasks could earn cash...
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its absence despite weaker incentives. We develop a principal-agent model with reference-dependent utility that … illustrates how labor contracts combining weak monetary incentives and wage-irrelevant goals can be optimal. It follows that … recognizing the pervasive use of non-monetary incentives in the workplace may help account for previous empirical findings …
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The canonical principal-agent problem involves a risk-neutral principal who must use incentives to motivate a risk … is true, then the lessons to be learned from principal-agency theory are all the wrong ones. Concentrating on incentives …
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that negative social evaluation, i.e., potential punishment, creates incentives for conformity. Positive social evaluation …, i.e., potential reward, creates incentives for anticonformity. In a laboratory experiment, we investigate the effect of … these incentives in three domains: judgments in the knowledge domain, subjective arts preferences, and decisions in a …
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In many organizations, productivity relies not just on individual effort but also on group morale, that is, the willingness of co-workers to help each other perform better at work. Relative performance evaluations (RPE) are known to increase individual work morale but may negatively affect group...
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emotions could decrease the use of punishments while keeping welfare high, possibly depending on pre-existing levels of … net earnings and self-reported emotions compared to a control condition (Natural). Although the interaction between the …
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emotions could decrease the use of punishments while keeping welfare high, possibly depending on pre-existing levels of … net earnings and self-reported emotions compared to a control condition (natural). Although the interaction between the …
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Are monetary and non-monetary incentives used as substitutes in motivating effort? I address this question in a … and non-monetary incentives imperfect. These findings have implications for the design of incentives in mission …
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