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Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
(2012-08-08)This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. We first show that, while high-powered incentives lead to ...