We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden …

We explore the effects of competitive incentives and of their time horizon on the evolution of both asset prices and …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …

Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little … attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real …-effort experiment in which individuals had to decide when to exit the situation : a continuous reinforcement schedule (all periods paid …

Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees’ further effort … extrinsic incentives by the availability of non-monetary incentives. …

When the assignment of incentives is uncertain, we study how the regularity and frequency of rewards and risk attitudes … influence participation and effort. We contrast three incentive schemes in a real-effort experiment in which individuals decide … show that less able and more risk averse players are less persistent in effort. Intermittent incentives lead to a greater …

experiment, we find that subjects acting as executives do indeed take risks that are excessive from the perspective of …