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Browsing ECO Articles by Author "MARSCHKE, Gerald"
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Title:A general test for distortions in performance measures
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, GeraldDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Results from the incentive literature suggest that performance measures are often distorted, eliciting dysfunctional and unintended responses. The existence of these responses, however, is difficult to demonstrate in ...
Title:Making Government Accountable: Lessons from a Federal Job Training Program
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, GeraldDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article describes the evolution of a performance measurement system in a government job training program. In this program, a federal agency establishes performance measures and standards for substate agencies. The ...
Title:Benchmarking Performance
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, GeraldDate:2005Type of Publication:Article
Title:Performance Funding in Federal Agencies: A Case Study of a Federal Job Training Program
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, GeraldDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Our case study highlights important details that enter into developing performance contingent budgeting schemes—details that do not emerge in more general discussions of the subject—and shows how the handling of these ...
Title:Dynamics of Performance-Measurement Systems
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, GeraldDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We review the principal–agent multi-tasking literature and discuss the relevance of this literature to the implementation of performance measurement in public organizations. Arguably, the most important lesson from the ...