Dr Yingchao Zhang's Outputs (2)

Performance Contests and Merit Pay with Empathic Employees (2023)
Journal Article
Fabel, O., Mauser, S., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Performance Contests and Merit Pay with Empathic Employees. Managerial and Decision Economics, 45(1), 353-372. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.4003

This paper studies the behavioral responses of employees who are endowed with empathic abilities to
different institutional designs of incentive pay. Empathic abilities motivate altruistic behavior by sensing
the other’s feelings towards oneself.... Read More about Performance Contests and Merit Pay with Empathic Employees.

Are family firms more efficient? Revisiting the U-shaped curve of scale and efficiency (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, K.-H., Chen, P.-H., Elston, J. A., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Are family firms more efficient? Revisiting the U-shaped curve of scale and efficiency. Small Business Economics, 61, 983–1008. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-022-00720-8

This study applies a stochastic frontier model to examine the relationship between firm size and efficiency using a novel approach. The first novelty is that this study examines large and small firms separately to allow for heterogeneity between firm... Read More about Are family firms more efficient? Revisiting the U-shaped curve of scale and efficiency.