the baseline setting remain intact. Our results shed light on the extensive discussion of confidence management in firms …

Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as … well as to their own output, with team bonuses often depending on whether the team meets or exceeds specified thresholds …. Yet little is known about how team members with different abilities respond to compensation rules and thresholds. We …

test of the theory implements a laboratory experiment, where important features of the theory can be exogenously imposed …. We begin with a theoretical exploration of optimal contest design, focusing on the number of competitors. Our theory …. We complement our lab experiment with a field experiment, where we rely on biological models complemented by economic …

. Nevertheless, the incentives to replicate are seldom in place in the sciences, especially within the social sciences. We propose a … begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the …

theory of agency, notably income insurance and multi-task considerations, also shape pay policies. The conclusion we draw …

examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent … information on incentives gives rise to error rates in excess of 40 percent, and that only 15 percent of participants consistently … report the truth. False reports are conservative and appear to result from a biased perception of the BSR incentives. While …

. We focus on regret theory and the use of "regret lotteries" for motivating behavior change. Here, findings from one …-shot settings have been used to promote regret as a tool to boost incentives in recurrent decisions across many settings. Using … theory and experiments, we replicate regret lotteries as the superior one-shot incentive; however, for repeated decisions the …