Selected Bibliography for Canice Prendergast

W. Allen Wallis Professor of Economics

Canice Prendergast author profile at Scopus

Published Works

"Organizational Design for Making a Difference." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 218, pp. 104817.

"The Allocation of Food to Food Banks." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130(8), pp. 1993-2017.

"Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply." Juan Camilo Castillo, Amrita Ahuja, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Tasneem Chipty, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Kremer, Greg Larson, Jean Lee, Canice Prendergast, Christopher M. Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Joel Tan and Witold Więcek; Science, 2021, 371(6534), pp. 1107-09.

"How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017, 31(4), pp. 145-62.

"Agency Issues." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125(6), pp. 1878-84.

"Bureaucratic Responses." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34(S2), pp. S183-S215.

"Professionalism and Contracts in Organizations." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(3), pp. 591-621.

"The Economics of Wild Goose Chases." Canice Prendergast; The Rand Journal of Economics, 2015, 46(1), pp. 146-64.

"The Empirical Content of Pay-for-Performance." Canice Prendergast; The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2015, 31(2), pp. 242-61.

"What Have We Learnt About Pay for Performance? Geary Lecture Winter 2010." Canice Prendergast; Economic and Social Review, 2011, 42(2), pp. 113-34.

"Intrinsic Motivation and Incentives." Canice Prendergast; American Economic Review, 2008, 98(2), pp. 201-05.

"The Motivation and Bias of Bureaucrats." Canice Prendergast; American Economic Review, 2007, 97(1), pp. 180-96.

"Contracts, Externalities, and Incentives in Shopping Malls." Eric D Gould, B. Peter Pashigian and Canice J Prendergast; Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87(3), pp. 411.

"Favoritism under Social Pressure." Luis Garicano, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta and Canice Prendergast; Review of Economics & Statistics, 2005, 87, pp. 208.

"The Limits of Bureaucratic Efficiency." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111(5), pp. 929-58.

"Uncertainty and Incentives." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Labor Economics, 2002, 20(2), pp. S115-37.

"The Tenuous Trade-Off between Risk and Incentives." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 110(5), pp. 1071-102.

"Consumers and Agency Problems." Canice Prendergast; Economic Journal, 2002, 112(478), pp. C34-51.

"The Non-Monetary Nature of Gifts." Canice Prendergast and Lars Stole; European Economic Review, 2001, 45(10), pp. 1793-810.

"What Trade-Off of Risk and Incentives?" Canice Prendergast; American Economic Review, 2000, 90(2), pp. 421-25.

"Barter Relationships," Canice Prendergast and Lars Stole, in The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies. P. Seabright, Cambridge; New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 35-70.

Canice Prendergast. "Paying for Performance." Financial Times, Dec 13, 1999, 12.

"The Provision of Incentives in Firms." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Economic Literature, 1999, 37(1), pp. 7-63.

"Restricting the Means of Exchange within Organizations." Canice Prendergast and Lars Stole; European Economic Review, 1999, 43(4-6), pp. 1007-19.

"What Happens within Firms? A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Compensation Policies," Canice Prendergast, in Labor Statistics Measurement Issues. J. Haltiwanger, M. E. Manser and R. Topel, Studies in Income and Wealth, vol. 60. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 329-54.

Monetizing Social Change Canice Prendergast and Lars Stole; Ir/Ps Research Report No. 98-05.; La Jolla, CA: Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies; University of California San Diego, 1998.

"Favoritism in Organizations." Canice Prendergast and Robert H. Topel; Journal of Political Economy, 1996, 104(5), pp. 958-78.

"Impetuous Youngsters and Jaded Old-Timers: Acquiring a Reputation for Learning." Canice Prendergast and Lars Stole; Journal of Political Economy, 1996, 104(6), pp. 1105-34.

"A Theory of Responsibility in Organizations." Canice Prendergast; Journal of Labor Economics, 1995, 13(3), pp. 387-400.

"Discretion and Bias in Performance Evaluation." Canice Prendergast and Robert Topel; European Economic Review, 1993, 37(2-3), pp. 355.

"The Role of Promotion in Inducing Specific Human Capital Acquisition." Canice Prendergast; Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993, 108(2), pp. 523.

"A Theory of "Yes Men "." Canice Prendergast; American Economic Review, 1993, 83(4), pp. 757-70.

"Merger Failure and Merger Profitability." Morten Hviid and Canice Prendergast; Journal of Industrial Economics, 1993, 41(4), pp. 371-86.

"The Insurance Effect of Groups." Canice Prendergast; International Economic Review, 1992, 33(3), pp. 567.

"Career Development and Specific Human Capital Collection." Canice Prendergast; Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1992, 6(3), pp. 207-27.

Theories of Internal Labor Markets; Canice John Prendergast; Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1989.