analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are frequently used in practice: tournaments, bonuses and piece rates. We …

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

of workers faced with progressive taxation under tournaments and piece rates. Because of the difficulty identifying any …

composition. We present evidence from a field experiment designed to evaluate the impact of rank incentives and tournaments on the … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … incentives only reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of the productivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments …

through either tournaments or team-based incentives. Participants engaged in a subsequent trust game in which the sender had …

recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments …