Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/124897 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9386
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A common observation is that individuals strive to neutralize the effect of procedural rules designed to drive choices away from their private optimum. An example of this phenomenon is offered by the reaction of Italian academia to two reforms that modified the procedures of recruitment and promotion, by introducing random selection of the examiners not appointed by the recruiting school and reducing from two to one the number of candidates to be qualified. We model the negotiation occurring within evaluation committees and test the decision rule implied by the theoretical model on the sample composed of all selections to associate and full professorship initiated by the Italian schools of economics between 2004 and 2011. Particularly, we investigate whether these reforms decreased the relative weight of the examiner appointed by the recruiting school on committee's decision. Empirical results suggest that both reforms had little if no effect on examiners' weights.
Subjects: 
university recruitment
incentives
negotiation
formal procedures
JEL: 
D71
M51
I2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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