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High-powered Incentives

High-Powered Incentives is an incentive scheme that belongs to the class of performance-based motivational mechanisms, distinguished by its reliance on strong, often nonlinear pay-performance relationships that induce significant agent effort through substantial marginal rewards for marginal improvements in output.

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130

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2017–2026

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Corporate tax avoidance and high-powered incentives

Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala · Journal of Financial Economics · 2005 · 2.2K citations

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Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives

Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2004 · 566 citations · Full text

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The Disaggregation of Corporations: Selective Intervention, High-Powered Incentives, and Molecular Units

Todd Zenger, William S. Hesterly · Organization Science · 1997 · 457 citations

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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Dirk Sliwka · American Economic Review · 2007 · 424 citations

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Crowding Out Intrinsic Motivation in the Public Sector

Yannis Georgellis, Elisabetta Iossa, Vurain Tabvuma · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory · 2010 · 316 citations · Full text

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Authors

130

  1. DA
    Daron Acemoğlu

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    5 publications · 249 citations

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  2. TZ
    Todd Zenger

    University of Utah, United States

    4 publications · 642 citations

    4

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  3. DD
    Dhammika Dharmapala

    University of Chicago, United States

    4 publications · 2.8K citations

    4

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  4. AG
    Atul Gupta

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    3 publications · 141 citations

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  5. MA
    Mihir A. Desai

    National Bureau of Economic Research, United States

    3 publications · 2.8K citations

    3

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Institutions

104

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    3.3K citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    258 citations

  4. Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    700 citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    356 citations

  6. University of Utah

    Salt Lake City, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    599 citations

  7. Ifo Institute for Economic Research

    Munich, Germany

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    146 citations

  8. New York University

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    10 publications

    690 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 22 publications · 1.4K citations

    17

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  2. American Economic Review

    7 publications · 1.3K citations

    7

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  3. Organization Science

    3 publications · 605 citations

    3

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  4. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

    JPART · 3 publications · 579 citations

    3

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  5. International Public Management Journal

    IPMJ · 3 publications · 290 citations

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