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Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the “taste for science” by a “taste for...

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Punishment – and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as...

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Awards at work

Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

Awards—widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere—are motivators that derive their value from non-pecuniary concerns such as status and self-image. Quasi-experimental panel data from the call center of a large international bank allow us to estimate the causal impact on effort when...

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Auszeichnungen: Ein Vernachlässigter Anreiz

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2005

Auszeichnungen die intrinsische Motivation, können die Wohlfahrt erhöhen und sind steuerfrei. Auszeichnungen sind ein wichtiges …

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Terrorism: Deterrence May Backfire

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Present anti-terrorist policy concentrates almost exclusively on deterrence. It seeks to fend off terrorism by raising the cost of undertaking terrorist acts. This paper argues that deterrence policy is less effective than generally thought and induces in some cases even more terrorism. This is,...

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Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

the agent's motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses his performance, the principal in our experiment decides …

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How to Fight Terrorism: Alternatives to Deterrence

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in actual politics and rational choice analyses of terrorism. But there are superior strategies to deterrence. One is to make terrorist attacks less attractive. Another to raise the opportunity cost – rather than the material...

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Awards as Incentives

Neckermann, Susanne; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

Non-monetary incentives in the form of awards have so far escaped the attention of economists despite their widespread use. This paper presents an experiment conducted online at IBM to assess the impact of these kinds of extrinsic incentives. Introducing a hypothetical award has statistically...

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Knight Fever towards an Economics of Awards

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive. The demand for awards relies on an...

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Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Form

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

Employees are motivated intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Intrinsic motivation is crucial when tacit knowledge in … and between teams must be transferred. Organizational forms enable different kinds of motivation and have different …’s sustainable competitive advantage, we ask specifically what kinds of motivation are needed to generate and transfer tacit …

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