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  • 27 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

around the topic of extortion. "The Shakedown" looks at the conflicts faced by the owner of a software development center in Kiev. Pavlo Zhuk, the U.S.-based co-owner, is notified by his partner that their Kiev office has been visited by Ukraine Tax Authority... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

By: Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, and Jonathan Warsh Abstract—The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

place them in a readily available collective. Paramedics are a telling example given the costly implications of malpractice in the United States. Paramedics are supposed to bring patients to attending physicians (most often in emergency... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

Summing Up Are We Getting More Sensible About Management Incentives? Respondents to this month's column suggest ways of fixing or selectively using various methods of providing incentives to management. They join the chorus of voices... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

  Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

Delmonico, Francis L., Robert Arnold, Nancy Scheper-Hugues, Laura A. Siminoff, Jeffrey Kahn, and Stuart J. Youngner. 2002. "Ethical Incentives - Not Payment - For Organ Donation." New England... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Digital Doctor In recent years, many physicians have put away pen-and-paper and taken up the keyboard or tablet to maintain patient health records. One motivation was the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 17 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

"Goodbye tension, hello pension!" That used to be the triumphant cry of millions of new retirees. For decades, Americans assumed a good job came with a good pension, guaranteeing them regular monthly payments from their parent... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services
  • 11 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration. Pharmaceutical companies have long opposed efforts to regulate drug prices, arguing that prices reflect the companies’ massive research investments. But Germany’s approach shows how the right View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

  Working PapersParallel Search, Incentives and Problem Type: Revisiting the Competition and Innovation Link Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract This paper presents econometric evidence of two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

and Why? Authors:Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Journal of Transplantation 10 (May 2010): 1221-1227 Abstract The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

arbitrary terms with no intrinsic meaning, a lesson that even economists have not learned. "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language," a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, provides a mathematical proof that the deficit, taxes, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

care. Indeed, the threat of malpractice creates incentives for physicians and hospitals to hide their mistakes rather than own up to and eliminate them. Standards for malpractice litigation need to change.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 08 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

waiting in line at the airport. Later, he decided to conduct a field experiment to explore the question. He and a team of experimenters equipped with small bills approached 500 people in lines and offered a cash payment of up to $10 to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

contribute to what we call the psychology of price. You can take the very same physical price and break it up into parts, bundle it with other items, ask for payment early, or ask for payment late, and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Business Review What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—Companies typically compensate their sales force by using some combination of salary, commission, and bonuses, but executives are often unsure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

across several measures, including professional status (the hierarchy of each team), psychological safety (the extent to which team members felt comfortable speaking up about work-related issues), and leader inclusiveness (the extent to which View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

taxpayers receive a deterrence message. Comparing their subsequent tax payments to a control group allows estimating what types of taxpayers are more likely to respond to an increase in perceived audit probability. This information can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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