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Incentives when altruism is impure: the case of blood and living organ donations
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The decision to donate blood and living organs is considered voluntary and altruistic. However, the shortage of donors has opened an interesting debate in recent years, considering offering economic incentives to donors. ...
An estimated new-Keynesian model with unemployment as excess supply of labor
(2010)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
As one alternative to search frictions, wage stickiness is introduced in a New-Keynesian model to generate endogenous unemployment fluctuations due to mismatches between labor supply and labor demand. The effects on an ...
Attitudes towards blood and living organ donations
(2010)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We model the decision of whether or not to become a blood/living organ donor. The expected utility for becoming a donor is a function of the degree of altruism, the consumption of goods, the costs of donation, the very ...
Claim problems and egalitarian criteria
(2010)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The paper presents a unified framework where claim and cost sharing problems are jointly analyzed. Both problems have the following common characteristic: given a proposal the agents valuate the suitability of the proposal ...
Motivational capital and incentives in health care organizations
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimal incentive schemes in public health institutions when agents (doctors) are intrinsically motivated. We develop a principal-agent dynamic model with moral hazard in which agents’ intrinsic motivation ...
Short run and long run effects of banking in a New Keynesian model
(2010)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper introduces both endogenous capital accumulation and deposit-in-advance requirements for investment in the banking model of Goodfriend and McCallum (2007). Impulse response functions from technology and monetary ...
Identity, incentives and motivational capital in public organizations
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores optimality of contracts and incentives when the principal (public organization) can undertake investments to change agents’ (public workers) identity. In the model, workers within the organization can ...
A pilot inquiry on incentives and intrinsic motivation in health care: the motivational capital explained by doctors
(2014)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Where the contracts are incomplete, the resulting co-ordination problems may be attenuated if workers are intrinsically motivated to do the work. It is established by theoretical and empirical literature that workers within ...
Sharing the costs of cleaning a river: the upstream responsibility rule
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The cleaning up of waste present in transboundary rivers, which requires the cooperation of different authorities, is a problematic issue, especially when responsibility for the discharge of the waste is not well-defined. ...
Incentives beyond the money and motivational capital in health care organizations
(2012)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper explores the conditions that characterize the optimality for a principal (health manager) to undertake investments to motivate agents (doctors). In the model, doctors are intrinsically motivated and can have ...