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 …

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. …This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on …

richness of information included in the spot model, we obtain closed-form formulae for futures prices and semi …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay schemes and relative performance feedback policies … on employee effort. We explore three feedback rules: No feedback on relative performance, feedback given halfway through … the production period, and continuously updated feedback. We use two pay schemes, a piece rate and a tournament. We find …

precise feedback on the co-worker's output, and also vary whether the two workers can communicate. We find that allowing …

democracies, governments need to convince their populations through efficient and persuasive information campaigns. In the context …, with 175 participants, to explore what type of information can induce change in vaccination intentions at both aggregate …, and that it is information of a purely scientific nature that has the only significant positive effect on intention to …

de l'information et de la connaissance. Nous opposons, ce qui est banal dans le domaine de sciences cognitives, et ne l …

We argue, in the spirit of some of Jean-Yves Jaffray's work, that explicitly incorporating the information, however … and analyze how the decision maker takes into account new information, even when this information is not an event and … finally that it is crucial when attempting to identify and measure the decision maker's attitude toward imprecise information. …