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 …

at approximately age 57. Thus, older workers face strong incentives to earn enough to obtain creditable coverage through …

large gap between social and private incentives to invest …

analyze incentives to adopt inefficient rate standards versus efficient CAT standards using both analytical and simulation … and the rate standard must be equal across all the states. Second, we illustrate important differences in the incentives … of a unified coalition of states and the incentives of a single state. Third, our simulation results show that when …

distorted R&D incentives; the deadweight loss from this distortion can be as large as the entire producer-surplus difference …

perverse incentives to distort the attribute upon which compliance depends. We develop a theoretical framework to predict how …

discrete signal based on that variable, theory suggests that the signal should have no bearing on behavior conditional on the …