CONTEXT Financial incentives, including taxes and subsidies, can be used to encourage behavior change. They are common in transport policy for tackling externalities associated with use of motor vehicles, and in public health for influencing alcohol consumption and smoking behaviors. Financial incentives also offer policymakers a compromise between "nudging," which may be insufficient for chang...

This article analyzes incentive conflicts that government officials face in operating a deposit insurance fund. Unresolved principal-agent problems exist between fund managers, the politicians to whom they report, and the taxpayers who constitute the enterprise's ultimate stockholders. Managers' ability to conceal implicit losses creates a conflict between maximizing the present value of the fu...

Acknowledgements The last mile is the longest one. No other saying could better describe the process of writing this thesis, which started with my studies at the Tinbergen Institute in 2006. While studying at the Tinbergen Institute, Hans and Stefan asked me to become their PhD student. I already got a taste of Stefan's …ne qualities as a supervisor when he guided me in writing my master thesis...

S ocial scientists and many biologists are all preoccupied in different ways with the nature and effects of the ways incentives influence behavior. One type of incentive is clearly intrinsic; it originates within a person and is often linked to exploratory behavior, hedonic pleasure from self-determined mastery, and desire to satisfy curiosity for its own sake (1). Another type of incentive is ...

This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate precise measures of the economic incentives for labour force participants between employment in a full time job and being on unemployment insurance benefits and considering also the fixed costs of work....

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1011-8934 eISSN 1598-6357 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2015.30.6.832 • J Korean Med ...

BACKGROUND Despite the importance of continuity of care after detoxification and residential treatment, many clients do not receive further treatment services after discharged. This study examined whether offering financial incentives and providing client-specific electronic reminders to treatment agencies lead to improved continuity of care after detoxification or residential treatment. METH...

In hopes of motivating consumers to provide larger volumes of useful reviews, many retailers offer financial incentives. Here, we explore an alternative approach, social norms, wherein we inform people about the volume of reviews authored by peers. We test the effectiveness of using financial incentives, social norms, and a combination of both strategies. In two randomized experiments, one in t...