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Pay Dispersion and Executive Behaviour

Compensation packages are widely used to motivate top executives. Pay dispersion among a firm's executives, however, can be associated with the antithetic effects of social comparison and individual motivation, with unclear...

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Cross-assignment discrimination in pay
The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for...
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Pay Dispersion and Executive Behaviour

Compensation packages are widely used to motivate top executives. Pay dispersion among a firm's executives, however, can be associated with the antithetic effects of social comparison and individual motivation, with unclear...

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Corporate visibility and executive pay
This paper seeks evidence of implicit regulation of executive pay. The implicit regulation hypothesis suggests highly visible companies will constrain their behavior to avoid potential reprisals from constituents, politicians...
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Library Lets Patrons Pay Fines with Food
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The fifth annual Food for Fines drive will run through Dec. 9. Patrons with overdue books can pay fines with nonperishable food items.
Published by: Winthrop University
Cross-assignment discrimination in pay
The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The model is only appropriate for...
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Corporate visibility and executive pay
This paper seeks evidence of implicit regulation of executive pay. The implicit regulation hypothesis suggests highly visible companies will constrain their behavior to avoid potential reprisals from constituents, politicians...
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Optimal Favoritism in All-Pay Auctions and Lottery Contests
We analyze the revenue-enhancing potential of favoring specific contestants in complete-information all-pay auctions and lottery contests with several heterogeneous contestants. Two instruments of favoritism are considered: head...
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Optimal Favoritism in All-Pay Auctions and Lottery Contests
We analyze the revenue-enhancing potential of favoring specific contestants in complete-information all-pay auctions and lottery contests with several heterogeneous contestants. Two instruments of favoritism are considered: head...
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What Information Do We Have on People's Willingness to Pay on Reducing Plastic Shopping Bags?
The Chinese government implemented the payment system for plastic shopping bags in 2008 and 2020. This study aims to analyze consumers' perceptions and purchase willingness of plastic shopping bags. Using information technology...
COVID-19 Vaccination Intent and Willingness to Pay in Bangladesh
This article reports the intent to receive a SARS-COV-2 vaccine, its predictors and willingness to pay in Bangladesh. We carried out an online cross-sectional survey of 697 adults from the general population of Bangladesh in...
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Managing macropods without poisoning ecosystems
Summary: A recent review of the management of hyperabundant macropods in Australia proposed that expanded professional shooting is likely to lead to better biodiversity and animal welfare outcomes. While the tenets of this...
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Selection of Methods of Proving the Inability of Debtors to Pay Debts and the Application of Prejudice Against Misuse of Insolvency Institutions in Insolvency Law in Indonesia
In determining the inability of the Debtor to pay his debts to the Creditor known 2 (two) methods, namely: First, the Insolvency Test; Second, the use of prejudice of not being able to pay debts (Presumption of Inability to...
Self-competence increases the willingness to pay for social influence
Abstract: Theoretical works in social psychology and neuroscientific evidence have proposed that social rewards have intrinsic value, suggesting that people place a high premium on the ability to influence others. To test this...
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The All-Pay Auction with Nonmonotonic Payoff
Subhasish M. Chowdhury
Oct 01, 2017
I model innovation contests as an all-pay auction in which it is possible not to achieve successful innovation despite costly R&D investments, and as a result, there is no winner. In such a case, the winning payoff turns out...
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Performance-related pay, efficiency wages and the shape of the tenure-earnings profile
Whilst it is well known that performance-related pay (PRP) may increase wage inequality within a firm, there is an inter-temporal lifecycle aspect that has been largely ignored in the literature. In this paper, we investigate...
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Using willingness-to-pay to establish patient preferences for cancer testing in primary care.
BACKGROUND: Shared decision making is a stated aim of several healthcare systems. In the area of cancer, patients' views have informed policy on screening and treatment but there is little information about their views on...
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Self-competence increases the willingness to pay for social influence.
Theoretical works in social psychology and neuroscientific evidence have proposed that social rewards have intrinsic value, suggesting that people place a high premium on the ability to influence others. To test this hypothesis...
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How “Informing Consumers” Impacts Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy Electricity in China
This paper finds that informed residents are more willing to support renewable energy development. Respondents with a higher level of participation in renewable energy planning, satisfaction with the implementation of renewable...
Performance-related pay, efficiency wages and the shape of the tenure-earnings profile
Whilst it is well known that performance-related pay (PRP) may increase wage inequality within a firm, there is an inter-temporal lifecycle aspect that has been largely ignored in the literature. In this paper, we investigate...
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The All-Pay Auction with Nonmonotonic Payoff
Subhasish M. Chowdhury
Oct 01, 2017
I model innovation contests as an all-pay auction in which it is possible not to achieve successful innovation despite costly R&D investments, and as a result, there is no winner. In such a case, the winning payoff turns out...
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