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Anja Schöttner
Researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin
Publications - 44
Citations - 548
Anja Schöttner is an academic researcher from Humboldt University of Berlin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Incentive. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 43 publications receiving 474 citations. Previous affiliations of Anja Schöttner include Center for Economic and Policy Research & University of Konstanz.
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Relational Contracts, Multitasking, and Job Design
TL;DR: This article analyzes optimal job design in a repeated principal-agent relationship when there is only one contractible and imperfect performance measure for three tasks whose contribution to firm value is nonverifiable.
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Hidden Benefits of Reward: A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives
TL;DR: This paper investigated the effect of motivational talk and its interaction with monetary incentives and found that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied by performance pay, and that without motivational talk, performance pay reduces performance.
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Optimal Sales Force Compensation in Dynamic Settings: Commissions vs. Bonuses
TL;DR: Analysis of optimal sales force compensation plans in a multiperiod moral-hazard model when the firm wants to implement high effort in every period but only obtains aggregate information on sales shows results robust to different types of cost externalities and demand externalities across periods.
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Fixed-prize tournaments versus first-price auctions in innovation contests
TL;DR: The authors analyzes a procurement setting with identical firms and stochastic innovations and shows that a procurer who cannot charge entry fees may prefer a fixed-prize tournament to a first-price auction.
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Fixed-Prize Tournaments Versus First-Price Auctions in Innovation Contests
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed a procurement setting with two identical firms and stochastic innovations and showed that a procurer who cannot charge entry fees may prefer a fixed-prize tournament to a first-price auction.