Designing incentives and performance measurement for advisors: How to make decision-makers listen to advice
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Keywords
performance measurement; incentive design; reliance on advice; goal relatedness; incentives beliefs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2023-05-22 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2023-05-22 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2023-05-22 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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