the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …

This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex … players’ incentives to adjust effort according to success chances. …

We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season …

through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which …

A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from … tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies, whereas short task duration or lack of distracters may limit the external … where students selected themselves into tournaments with different prizes. Within each tournament the best performing …

This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer …

behavior depends critically on the way in which performance incentives are structured. In particular, relative compensation …