Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic … questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combi …-nation of administrative and survey data. We find that guaranteed incentives of $20 increase uptake by 13 percentage points in …

strategically optimal. This behavior is consistent with the equilibrium of the corresponding signaling game. Based on the theory of …

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of …

When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social …

that different risk-groups prefer different types of contracts, and that only the sequential contracts, which are …

liquidity risk and characterizes them. Both a solvency (leverage) and a liquidity ratio are required to control the … interpret the 2007 run on SIV and ABCP conduits. -- stress ; crises ; illiquidity risk ; insolvency risk ; leverage ratio …

Much of economics assumes that higher incentives increase participation in a transaction only because they exceed more … costly, higher incentives also change reservation prices to further increase participation. A higher incentive makes people …. Hence, incentives change not only what people choose, but also what they believe their choices entail. This result informs …

We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We … from small negative to small positive monetary incentives. By contrast, while social norms strongly favor information …