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

employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … the production period, and continuously updated feedback. The pay schemes are a piece rate payment scheme and a winner …-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer …

In this paper, we analyze a principal's optimal feedback policy in tournaments. We close a gap in the literature by …

worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful in order to make the feedback from the firm …

unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction …

Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment … are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a setting where all agents can monitor and …

, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and employment subsidies. The results are remarkably uniform across studies. We …