Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/23820 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 250
Publisher: 
European University Viadrina, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Frankfurt (Oder)
Abstract: 
If a previously unpaid activity (donating blood) is paid then we often observe that this activity is reduced. In this paper, it is hypothesised that the price offered is taken as a proxy for the "market value" of the activity. Depending on how the actor valued the activity previously, crowding-out or crowding-in, as well as persistence (or not) of the effect after the abandoning of payment is implied. This "naive" explanation is confronted with Bénabou and Tirole´s (2003) priciple-agent model where the opposite signalling effect is hypothesised: a higher price is taken as an indication for a lower value.
Subjects: 
Intrinsic Motivation
Crowding-out
Signaling
JEL: 
H42
D64
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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