Die vorliegende Studie liefert auf Basis einer Befragung von Unternehmen in Deutschland Ergebnisse zu deren Plänen, künftig mit anderen Unternehmen Data Sharing zu betreiben. An der Befragung beteiligten sich im Januar 2023 rund 1.400 Unternehmen aus dem Verarbeitenden Gewerbe und der...

This study examines the effect of incentive types and organizational value statements on corporate social responsibility (CSR) decisions. It used a 2 × 2 between-subject experimental design and analyzed the data using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The participants were undergraduate students in...

Die vorliegende Studie liefert auf Basis einer Befragung von Unternehmen in Deutschland Ergebnisse zu deren Plänen, künftig mit anderen Unternehmen Data Sharing zu betreiben. An der Befragung beteiligten sich im Januar 2023 rund 1.400 Unternehmen aus dem Verarbeitenden Gewerbe und der...

We investigate the association between business strategy and firm-level tournament incentives in China and find that business strategy is associated with tournament incentives positively. We further find that this positive relationship manifests itself in local, but not central, state-owned...

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many contractual relationships. In a series of eight laboratory gift-exchange experiments, we show that incentive contracts can lead to crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between firm leverage and risktaking. We embed the traditional agency problem of asset substitution within a multi-period model, revealing a U-shaped relationship between leverage and risktaking, evident in data from both the U.S. and Europe. Firms...

Incentives are supposed to increase effort, yet individuals react differently to incentives. We examine this heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and performance in a real effort task. We analyze the...

Take-up of social benefits is a central issue in poverty alleviation and fiscal evaluations of policy reforms. However, it is difficult to find exogenous variation in the benefit level, and little is therefore known about take-up responses to basic financial incentives. We exploit large and...

Incentives are supposed to increase effort, yet individuals react differently to incentives. We examine this heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and performance in a real effort task. We analyze the...

Economic agents react to incentives, and this holds true for professional football teams as well. Double round-robin and single-match elimination represent two opposite competition regimes, with incentives varying distinctly between them. At the level of individual matches, a single defeat needs...

Managers frequently offer unconditional bonuses and profit-sharing payments to their employees. The isolated effects of the former payment type on job satisfaction, in particular, have received little empirical attention. This study uses German panel data and shows that, even when total income...

To minimize the environmental costs of electric vehicles (EVs) and support decarbonizing electric grids, drivers must charge their EVs when renewable energy generation is abundant. To induce a shift in charging behavior toward daytime hours with ample solar energy, we conducted a field...

This study examines the impact of tax incentives on charitable donations within South Africa, with a focus on donations declared on individuals' tax returns. Leveraging the universe of South African tax administrative data spanning over a decade (2011-21), we apply the bunching approach to...

Efficient coordination is a major source of efficiency gains. We study in an experimental coordination game with 718 children and teenagers, aged 9 to 18 years, the strategies played in pre-adulthood. We find no robust age effects in the aggregate, but see that smaller group sizes and larger...

Efficient coordination is a major source of efficiency gains. We study in an experimental coordination game with 718 children and teenagers, aged 9 to 18 years, the strategies played in pre-adulthood. We find no robust age effects in the aggregate, but see that smaller group sizes and larger...

The experimental study "Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives" by Philip Babcock and colleagues (2015) proposes that team incentives significantly enhance individual performance through social pressure and peer effects. The findings suggest that individuals are motivated by a...

This paper proposes an objective way of estimating and allocating "differentiated” responsibilities for carbon emissions across countries. These responsibilities translate into specific obligations and incentives for future emission reductions and support for adaptation, mitigation, and...