in performance. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether allowing subjects to self-select into … substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is efficiency …

-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 …

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

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

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …-subject variance is substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on the degree of risk aversion …

-to-implement procedure could be adequately used. For that purpose, the subjects' degree of risk aversion is compared across three payment …