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2005-08-09BuchFixed-Prize Tournaments versus First-Price Auctions in Innovation Contests Schöttner, AnjaThis paper analyzes a procurement setting with two identical firms and stochastic innovations. In contrast to the previous literature, I show that a procurer who cannot charge entry fees may prefer a fixed-prize tournament ...
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2007-08-01BuchPromotion Tournaments and Individual Performance Pay Schöttner, Anja; Thiele, VeikkoWe analyze the optimal combination of promotion tournaments and individual performance pay in an employment relationship. An agent's effort is non-observable and he has private information about his suitability for promotion. ...
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2005-09-29BuchRelational Contracts and Job Design Schöttner, AnjaThis paper analyzes the problem of optimal job design when there is only one contractible and imperfect performance measure for all tasks whose contribution to firm value is non-veritable. I find that task splitting is ...
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2006-04-20BuchTechnological Choice under Organizational Diseconomies of Scale Demougin, Dominique; Schöttner, AnjaWith adverse selection, diseconomies of scale associated with hierarchies may induce the implementation of a second-best technology. This occurs whenever rents to lower tiers of the hierarchy increase faster than total ...