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Performance Cycles

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  • David Lagziel

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  • Ehud Lehrer

    (TAU)

Abstract

A decision maker repeatedly exerts efforts to produce new outputs, while being compensated based on his past and current production levels. We show that the decision maker’s optimal strategy dictates a cyclic oscillatory performance whenever the compensation depends on recent past performance. We apply our model to various economic settings such as the delegated portfolio-managers problem, an R &D investment problem, and a dynamic advertising problem.
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  • David Lagziel & Ehud Lehrer, 2018. "Performance Cycles," Working Papers 1809, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
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    • David Lagziel & Ehud Lehrer, 2024. "Performance cycles," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 77(4), pages 999-1024, June.

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    Keywords

    Reputation; Performance cycles; Performance persistence; Dynamic Optimization;
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    JEL classification:

    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium
    • C79 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Other

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