Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
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- Shawn Cole & Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper, 2015. "Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 70(2), pages 537-575, April.
- Cole, Shawn & Kanz, Martin & Klapper, Leora, 2012. "Incentivizing calculated risk-taking :evidence from an experiment with commercial bank loan officers," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6146, The World Bank.
- Shawn Cole & Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper, 2013. "Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers," NBER Working Papers 19472, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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loan officer incentives; banking; emerging markets;JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BAN-2012-07-14 (Banking)
- NEP-CTA-2012-07-14 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-EXP-2012-07-14 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2012-07-14 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
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