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Analyst Incentives
Analyst forecasts have been shown to reflect substantial behavioral biases and predict a number of macroeconomic phenomena. While we typically treat reported forecasts as statistical expectations, under uncertainty the reported point estimate will be sensitive to the payoff structure facing the …
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Essays on Dynamic Incentives
<p>This thesis consists of three essays on dynamic contracts or games with incomplete information. In Chapter 1, I study concealing losses in dynamic relationships. I investigate a continuous-time reputation game, where an agent privately observes a Poisson process of losses and chooses whether to …
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Incentives and Firm Behaviors
… organizations as well as individuals given their incentives, and analyze the consequences of such decisions to the financial health of firms and the macro economy. A firm is incentivized by the value investors place on its operations; while employees, particularly the management team, is …
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The Relationship of Personal Incentives, Job Opportunity Incentives, and Performance for Real Estate Associates
The relationship of personal incentives, job opportunity incentives, and personal incentive/job opportunity incentive differences to four objective measures and one subjective measure of performance was explored. Spectrum, developed out of the theory of personal investment, was administered to 140 …
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Essays on Team-based Incentives
Over the past few decades, team-based incentives are used by more and more organizations to motivate their agents to exert effort. The usage of team incentives creates many challenges, especially the “free-riding” problem. In current dissertation, I provide the evidence from the laboratory and …
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Four Essays on Managerial Incentives
"In chapter 4, we consider the unexpected share price reaction to corporate news announcements. We first consider whether there is more information content in similar corporate news announcements for different types of firms. Second, we investigate whether the value of news information about these …
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Essays on incentives for innovation
… independent essays that examine the role of incentives for innovation in organizations. Chapter 2 studies the provision of incentives when workers explore new work methods in parallel. In such a setting under-exploration may result as workers attempt to free-ride on the new ideas of …
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Managerial incentives and corporate control
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Relational contracts, incentives and information
Chapter 1: I study the design and functioning of self-enforcing incentive contracts under imperfect observability, using a model of repeated agency that allows for both common and private performance monitoring. When performance measures are mutually observed, optimal relational agreements always …
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Profit incentives and technological change
… three empirical essays on the effect of profit incentives on innovation and technology adoption. Chapter 1, written with Daron Acemoglu, investigates the effect of (potential) market size on entry of new drugs and pharmaceutical innovation. Focusing on exogenous changes driven by U.S. …
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Essays on information and incentives
… a reform to remove ex-post time inconsistent incentives due to lack of commitment. The government has to take a policy action, but has the ability to commit to limiting its discretionary power. If the public believed the reform solved this time inconsistency problem, the policy maker could …
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Essays on information and incentives
… has two components: talent and responsiveness to incentives. We use the term "drive" to reflect people's different responsiveness to incentives, and show that the extra dimension of heterogeneity changes the behavior of agents and the structure of organizations in significant ways. First, since …
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Modelling historic preservation tax incentives
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Distributed Resource Management with Monetary Incentives
Es werden Marktmechanismen für die Ressourcenvergabe in verteilten Computersystemen vorgeschlagen. Wir präsentieren ein neues, budgetausgeglichenes Preisbildungsschema für kombinatorische Tauschmärkte sowie eine neue Methode zur Synchronisierung der abgegebenen Gebote und wenden diese auf die …
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Essays on Sales Force Career Incentives
… firms optimally manage long term career related incentives for their sales people. When sales people put sales effort they face incentives not only from short term incentives like commissions and bonuses but also from long term rewards associated with progression in their career. In particular, …
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Risk-Return Tradeoffs and Managerial incentives
… and firms respond by providing risk-taking incentives to mitigate these costs. The underlying assumption in this literature is that increasing shareholder value requires increasing risk, yet there is limited empirical evidence supporting this assumption or the role of such risk-return …
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General incentives in finite game theory
… dynamics can be achieved using the canonical incentives. Specifically the Brown-von Neumann-Nash dynamics, replicator equations, projection dynamics, logit equations, best-reply dynamics, and pairwise comparison dynamics will all be derived from their respective incentives. It will be shown …
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Decentralized utilization incentives in electronic cash
… as a means to incentivize resource utilization. Incentives to utilize resource may stimulate economic growth. However, the asymmetry of economic control and potential abuses of power implicit in centralized systems may be undesirable. An electronic cash design may be able to create resource …
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Understanding high-powered incentives in organizations
… changes in recent years and the effect of these incentives on firm performance. I first explore the trend of executive compensation structure and performance metrics used in executive compensation over the years. I also examine systematic differences across industries and different firm sizes. …
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