Corral, Julio del; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; Simmons, Rob - In: Journal of Sports Economics 11 (2010) 3, pp. 243-260
A growing literature examines adverse behavior as unintended consequences of incentives. We test Lazear's hypothesis that states that if rewards were dependent solely on relative performance then an increase in rewards would induce agents to engage in sabotage activity to reduce rivals' output....