Multitask principal – agent analyses: Incentive contracts, asset ownership, and job design

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The Salesperson as Outside Agent or Employee

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Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

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The role of information and financial reporting in corporate governance and debt contracting

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Psychological foundations of incentives

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Incentive contracts and performance measurement

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The future of crowd work

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Accountability, incentives and behavior: the impact of high-stakes testing in the Chicago Public Schools

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Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities

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Performance Contracting in After-Sales Service Supply Chains

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Toward Meaningful Engagement: A Framework for Design and Research of Gamified Information Systems1

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Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning

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Tax farming redux: experimental evidence on performance pay for tax collectors

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Waste prevention and social preferences: the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations

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Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

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Visibility into AI Agents

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Formal and Informal Contracting: Theory and Evidence

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The Effect of Nonlinear Incentives on Performance: Evidence from “Econ 101”

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Motivation, Test Scores, and Economic Success

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Research Note—Information Technology, Contract Completeness, and Buyer-Supplier Relationships

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The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality

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Future of professional work: evidence from legal jobs in Britain and the United States

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The effect of civilian oversight on police organizational performance: a quasi-experimental study

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Algorithmic monoculture and social welfare

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Agency Theory: Designing Optimal Incentives in the Insurance Sector

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The Incentive on Non-governmental Organization Participating the Public Services in Rural Areas——From the Perspective of Principal-Agent

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Modelling countervailing incentives in adverse selection models: A synthesis

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Supervisory Incentives within Contracts: A Principal-Supervisor-Agent Approach

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Analysis of agent commission incentive based on the principal-agent theory

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