Arbeitspapier

Dynamic reform of public institutions: A model of motivated agents and collective reputation

State capacity is optimized when public institutions are staffed by individuals with public-service motivation. However, when motivated agents value the collective reputation of their place of employment, steady-state equilibria with both high and low aggregate motivation (reputation) in the mission-oriented sector exist. Reforming a low-motivation institution requires a non-monotonic wage path: since the effect of higher wages on motivation is negative for a highreputation institution, but positive for a low-reputation institution, a transition to a high-reputation steady state requires an initial wage increase to crowd motivated workers in, followed by a wage decrease to crowd non-motivated workers out.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WZB Discussion Paper ; No. SP II 2015-303r

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
Thema
Motivated Agents
Institutional Reform
Public Sector

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Valasek, Justin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Valasek, Justin
  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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