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Leadership and Incentives [PDF]

open access: yesManagement Science, 2016
We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments, where the base treatment was a standard public goods game with simultaneous contribution decisions, and the three other treatments allowed participants to volunteer to be the leader in their group and make their contribution before ...
Cappelen, Alexander W.   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Opinions as Incentives [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2009
We study a model where a decision maker (DM) must select an adviser to advise her about an unknown state of the world. There is a pool of available advisers who all have the same underlying preferences as the DM; they differ, however, in their prior beliefs about the state, which we interpret as differences of opinion. We derive a tradeoff faced by the
Che, Yeon-Koo, Kartik, Navin
openaire   +2 more sources

The effect of a reference point in task difficulty: How does a task that becomes irrelevant affect effort, feelings and perceptions

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2022
We examine the effect of an irrelevant task that may become a reference point on subjects’ effort, feelings and perceptions. All subjects complete up to 25 tasks and are paid $0.10 per task solved correctly.
Alisa Voslinsky, Ofer H. Azar
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging incentives to increase HIV testing uptake among men: qualitative insights from rural Uganda. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BACKGROUND:Few studies have explored how economic incentives influence behavioral outcomes. This study aimed to identify pathways of action of an incentives-based intervention to increase men's participation in HIV testing.
Byamukama, Ambrose   +11 more
core   +2 more sources

To pay or not to pay: Measuring risk preferences in lab and field

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2021
Measuring risk preferences using monetary incentives is costly. In the field, it might be also unfair and unsafe. The commonly used measure of Holt and Laury (2002) relies on a dozen lottery choices and payments, which make it time consuming and ...
Pablo Brañas-Garza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collective Production and Incentives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We analyse incentive problems in collective production environments where contributors are compensated according to their observed and ranked efforts.
Gershkov, Alex   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

A pilot randomized trial of five financial incentive strategies to increase study enrollment and retention rates

open access: yesContemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2019
Background: Enrollment and retention difficulties remain major barriers to conducting clinical trials. Financial incentives may promote clinical trial enrollment, however delivery methods to maximize enrollment, maximize retention, and minimize cost ...
Dustin C. Krutsinger   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of pension rules on retirement monetary incentives with an application to pension reforms in Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In this work we theoretically disentangle the effects of pension provisions on a variety of financial incentives to retirement, trying to reconcile them with some key Spanish retirement patterns.
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi   +1 more
core   +8 more sources

Mechanisms for Incentivizing Top Managers of the Company in the Long Term

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2021
Motivating and rewarding company employees requires constant development and improvement the remuneration of the top management of the company is especially difficult.
I. I. Ordinartsev
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives

open access: yesJournal of Economic Perspectives, 2020
This essay describes and evaluates state and local business tax incentives in the United States. In 2014, states spent between $5 and $216 per capita on incentives for firms in the form of firm-specific subsidies and general tax credits, which mostly ...
C. Slattery, Owen M. Zidar
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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