Herd Behaviour as an Incentive Scheme

No 425, Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers from Econometric Society

Abstract: This paper presents a model of technology invention in an emerging market. Managers wait and adopt the standard technology in the hope to free-ride on the effort level of another manager who may invent a superior technology. The more managers who adopt the standard technology, the more their successors believe that probably the superior technology doesn't exist. As this hampers the successors' incentives to innovate, herding in my model reduces the scope of strategic waiting.

Date: Written 2000-08-01

Downloads: (external link)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/es2000/0425.pdf main text (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Herd behaviour as an incentive scheme (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers from Econometric Society
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Christopher F. Baum ().