teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …

economic theory of human motivation. The first (‘type discontinuity’) is the observation of a discontinuity in the distribution …

-financial rewards elicit effort both by leveraging intrinsic motivation for the cause and by facilitating social comparison among agents …. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. …

. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose … of this Paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and … reduce the performance of agents or their compliance with rules. In addition, these motives may generate very powerful …

This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation and reciprocity in driving open source software …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector …

We analyse the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state-owned firms. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …