We study the impact of information manipulation by a principal on the agent's effort. In a context of asymmetric … information at the principal's advantage, we test experimentally the principal's willingness to bias (overestimate or under …-estimate) the information she gives to her agent on his ability in order to motivate him to exert more effort. We find that i …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …