We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its … interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied …

Real-effort experiments are frequently used when examining a response to incentives. For any particular real …-effort task to be well-suited for such an exercise, subjects' cost for exerting effort must, for the range of incentives … nonmonetary incentives. However, despite its increasing use, a simple between-subject examination of the slider task's response to …

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers … trade of the first-priority. Concerning the ISP's investment incentives, we find that capacity expansion affects the sale …

There is growing interest in the use of loss contracts that offer performance incentives as upfront payments that …

incentives under limited commitment. It circumvents ratchet effects and facilitates the revelation of persistent private …

reduce the effort costs of a worker, and analyze the optimal combination of motivational effort and monetary incentives. We … conditions under which monetary incentives and motivational effort are substitutes or complements, and show that motivational …

selection probability induce the monetary incentives in a large-scale Internet treatment. Two laboratory treatments complement … incentives. Our results suggest that cost-effective BRIS consist of high nominal payoffs and a small selection probability …