Keyword: incentive

Front Loading (5/12/2010)

Cash for clunkers and home-buyer tax credit provided huge subsidies for each incremental sale but failed to sustain the car and housing markets.

Keywords: cash for clunkers, channel stuffing, Economic stimulus, expenditure multiplier, front loading, home-buyer tax credit, incentive, incremental sale, pump priming, subprime loan, subsidies

Make Me an Offer (3/26/2007)

A salesman on commission has an incentive to practice perfect price discrimination.

Keywords: commission, consumer surplus, haggling, incentive, perfect price discrimination, price searcher

To Each According to His Work (3/7/2007)

Piecework pay could raise labor productivity, pay, and company earnings when output and quality are easily measurable.

Keywords: hourly wage, incentive, performance, piece-rate, piecework, productivity, quality control, Safelite Glass, safety net wage