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| Title: | | The Pygmalion effect : an agency model with reference dependent preferences  |
| Authors: | | Daido, Kohei Itoh, Hideshi |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working papers 1444 |
| Abstract: | | We attempt to formulate and explain two types of self-fulfilling prophecy, called the Pygmalion effect (if a supervisor thinks her subordinates will succeed, they are more likely to succeed) and the Galatea effect (if a person thinks he will succeed, he is more likely to succeed). To this purpose, we extend a simple agency model with moral hazard and limited liability by introducing a model of reference dependent preferences (RDP) by K?szegi and Rabin (2004). We show that the agent with high expectations about his performance can be induced to choose high effort with low-powered incentives. We then show that the principal?s expectation has an important role as an equilibrium selection device. |
| Subjects: | | self-fulfilling prophecy Pygmalion effect Galatea effect reference dependent preferences agency model moral hazard |
| JEL: | | M12 M54 M52 D82 B49 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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