Results 41 to 50 of about 1,873,776 (400)
Competition and incentives [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2017 We report on two experiments that identify non-monetary incentive effects of competition. As the number of competitors increases, monetary incentives to engage in cost reduction tend to decrease. We test the hypothesis that there are non-monetary incentive effects of competition going in the opposite direction.
Lisa Fey +3 more
openaire +3 more sources
Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives
Journal 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
Collective Production and Incentives [PDF]
, 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
Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум, 2021 Relevance. According to the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation 12,1 % of the population of Russia are below the absolute poverty line (they have an average per capita income below the subsistence minimum used in the country ...
IlyaF. Vereshchagin, ArtemV. Vakhrushev
doaj +1 more source
AGGREGATION AND LINEARITY IN THE PROVISION OF INTERTEMPORAL INCENTIVES
, 1987 The authors develop two themes in the theory of incentive schemes. First, one need not always use all of the information available in an optimal incentive contract. Accounting information, which aggregates performance over time, is sufficient for optimal
Bengt R. Holmstrom, Paul R. Milgrom
semanticscholar +1 more source
Timing of Verification Procedures: Monitoring versus Auditing [PDF]
, 2005 This paper studies the strategic effect of a difference in timing of verification in an agency model. A principal may choose between two equally efficient verification procedures: monitoring and auditing.
Strausz, Roland
core +2 more sources
Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022 Numerous studies have found that long term retention is very low in remote clinical studies (>4 weeks) and to date there is limited information on the best methods to ensure retention.
Isabell R. Griffith Fillipo +8 more
doaj +1 more source
Aligning Ambition and Incentives [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Labor turnover creates longer term career concerns incentives that motivate employees in addition to the short term monetary incentives provided by the current employer. We analyze how these incentives interact and derive implications for the design of incentive contracts and organizational choice.
Eloic Peyrache +2 more
openaire +17 more sources
Social Norms Offer Explanation for Inconsistent Effects of Incentives on Prosocial Behavior [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Incentives have surprisingly inconsistent effects when it comes to encouraging people to behave prosocially. Classical economic theory, according to which a specific behavior becomes more prevalent when it is rewarded, struggles to explain why incentives sometimes backfire.
arxiv
Econometrica, 2008 Can incentives be effective in encouraging the development of good habits? We investigate the post-intervention effects of paying people to attend a gym a number of times during one month. In two studies we find marked attendance increases after the intervention relative to attendance changes for the respective control groups.
Charness, Gary B, Gneezy, Uri
openaire +4 more sources