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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments: An Experiment in a Company
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use may signal the prevalence of free‐riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis with an artefactual field experiment that assigns managers and employees from a large company to stylized roles ...
Marvin Deversi, Lisa Spantig
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Multipartite tournaments: A survey
Discrete Mathematics, 2007 A multipartite tournament is an oriented complete \(c\)-partite graph for some \(c\geq 2\). This survey, containing 181 references, concentrates primarily on properties of paths and cycles in \(c\)-partite tournaments, mainly for \(c\geq 3\). Some of the section headings are as follows: Cycles whose length does not exceed the number of partite sets ...
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Evidence Gathering Under Competitive and Noncompetitive Rewards
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reward schemes may affect not only agents' effort but also their incentives to gather information in order to reduce the riskiness of the productive activity. In a laboratory experiment using a novel task, we find that the relationship between incentives and evidence gathering depends critically on the availability of information about peers ...
Philip Brookins +2 more
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Cryptobenthic reef fishes may not be safe from invasive lionfish (Pterois spp. Oken, 1817)
Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Lionfish (Pterois spp.) are hypothesized to negatively influence cryptobenthic reef fish assemblages through predation. We evaluated these potential effects on Caribbean reefs in Costa Rica and tropical reefs in Brazil. Brazil provided a reference condition for cryptobenthic assemblages prior to lionfish invasion, while the Costa Rica sites ...
Liana F. Mendes +10 more
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Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence [PDF]
This paper examines behavior in a tournament in which we vary the tournament prize structure and the information available about participants' skill at the task of solving mazes.
Freeman, Richard B. +1 more
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Euro 2016: how UEFA found the formula for its toughest tournament yet [PDF]
, 2016 First paragraph: The starting whistle will blow on the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament on Friday June 10 as hosts France take on Romania in the opening game.
Scelles, Nicolas
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Neurophysiological Methods in Accounting and Finance
Journal of International Financial Management &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent advances in neuroscience have made neurophysiological methods increasingly accessible, creating a timely opportunity to rethink how accounting and financial decisions are studied. Yet accounting and finance research has been slow to exploit its full potential.
Gaia Bassani, Silvio Vismara
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Ranking, risk-taking and effort: an analysis of the ECB's foreign reserves management [PDF]
The investment of the ECB reserves in US dollars and yen involves an annual performance assessment of portfolio managers, located in the Eurosystem’s national central banks.
Benjamin Sahel, Antonio Scalia
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The Evolution of Interest‐Rate Models: From the Yield Curve to the Swaption Cube
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Interest‐rate modelling is often taught as a catalogue of competing stochastic equations, obscuring why models were created and why modern sell‐side desks use several simultaneously. This survey reorganises the field around five layers of a pricing architecture: curve construction; arbitrage‐free dynamics; volatility‐smile representation ...
Xuan Feng +2 more
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Joutes, emprises et pas d'armes en Castille, Bourgogne et France 1428 – 1470
L'Atelier du CRH, 2010 Sébastien Nadot
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