Stefan, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2020
dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs … when performance in one task is incentivized and ranked while another prosocial task is not: (i) a ranking influences … ranked task; (ii) those ahead in the ranking spend less total effort and lower relative effort in the ranked task …