Carrots or sticks? Inferring motives of corporate CSR Engagement from empirical data

Sticks and Carrots in Procurement∗

We study differently framed incentives in dynamic laboratory buyerseller relationships with multi-tasking and endogenous matching. The experimental design tries to mitigate the role of social preferences and intrinsic motivation. Absent explicit incentives, effort is low in both tasks. Their introduction boosts efficiency substantially increasing effort in the contractible task, mildly crowding...

Carrots or Sticks? Optimal Compensation for Firm Managers

We investigate the existence of and explicitly characterize compensation structures that eliminate agency conflicts between a leveraged firm (or its shareholders) and the manager due to managerial asset substitution within a continuous time framework. The manager may dynamically switch between two strategies with different risks and expected returns after debt is in place. We show that when the...

Editorials Carrots, sticks and tuberculosis

The spectrum of nitrofurantoin lung injury continues to widen. The case histories are presented of two patients who developed lung disease associated with the use of nitrofurantoin with histological features of bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia (BOOP), a rare but recognised form of drug induced injury. The two middle aged women presented with respiratory symptoms after prolonged tre...

Carrots or Sticks: What's Best for Source Reduction?

Sharing Neuron Data: Carrots, Sticks, and Digital Records

Routine data sharing is greatly benefiting several scientific disciplines, such as molecular biology, particle physics, and astronomy. Neuroscience data, in contrast, are still rarely shared, greatly limiting the potential for secondary discovery and the acceleration of research progress. Although the attitude toward data sharing is non-uniform across neuroscience subdomains, widespread adoptio...